Peoria Standard

Peoria Heights Community Unit School District 325 reported 156 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 156 students during the year. This equates to 22 percent of the 716 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 60 incidents with violence without physical injury, six incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.

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

Boy students received 104 suspensions, while 52 girls were suspended.

There were 92 elementary or middle school students, and 64 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 78. There were 60 incidents of violence without injury. For 102 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	3
Violence without injury	0	60
Drug offenses	0	1
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	6
Other reason	8	78
Total	8	148

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	8	21
2-3 days	0	10
3-4 days	0	102
4-10 days	0	15
More than 10 days	0	0