Peoria Standard

Washington Community High School District 308 reported 82 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 82 students during the year. This equates to six percent of the 1,464 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 11 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 19 incidents with drugs, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

Boy students received 54 suspensions, while 28 girls were suspended.

There were 82 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 44. There were 19 incidents of drug offense. For 56 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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		3
Violence with injury		4
Violence without injury		11
Drug offenses		19
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		1
Tobacco		0
Other reason		44
Total		82

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		11
2-3 days		2
3-4 days		56
4-10 days		13
More than 10 days		0