Peoria Standard

Pekin Public School District 108 reported 181 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 181 students during the year. This equates to six percent of the 3,137 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 59 incidents with violence without physical injury, 51 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, five incidents with drugs, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 29. There were 14 incidents of tobacco. For 43 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 127 suspensions, while 54 girls were suspended.

There were 181 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 48. There were 37 incidents of tobacco. For 55 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	0	0
Violence with injury	0	4
Violence without injury	11	48
Drug offenses	0	5
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	0
Tobacco	14	37
Other reason	29	32
Total	55	126

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	43	34
2-3 days	10	21
3-4 days	2	55
4-10 days	0	16
More than 10 days	0	0