Peoria Standard

Limestone Community High School District 310 reported 207 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 207 students during the year. This equates to 23 percent of the 894 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 44 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 17 incidents with violence without physical injury, 11 incidents with drugs, five incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm.

Boy students received 138 suspensions, while 69 girls were suspended.

There were 207 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 130. There were 44 incidents of violence with injury. For 81 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
Violence with injury		44
Violence without injury		17
Drug offenses		11
Firearm		5
Other dangerous weapons		0
Tobacco		0
Other reason		130
Total		207

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		76
2-3 days		81
3-4 days		15
4-10 days		35
More than 10 days		0