Peoria Standard

County of Woodford School reported 65 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 65 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 933 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 11 incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 27. There were three incidents of drug offense. For 21 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 53 suspensions, while 12 girls were suspended.

There were 65 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 16. There were nine incidents of tobacco. For 11 incidents, students were suspended for two to three days.

Illinois ranks as the 5th state in terms of the overall number of schools and student enrollment among all states.

Illinois lawmakers enacted laws in 2015 to restrict schools from disciplining a disproportionate number of Black and minority students out of school and into the criminal justice system, often for minor misbehavior.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	0
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	1	1
Drug offenses	3	8
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	9
Other reason	27	16
Total	31	34

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	0
1-2 days	21	10
2-3 days	5	11
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	8
More than 10 days	0	0