Peoria Standard

East Peoria Community High School District 309 reported 1,043 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 1043 students during the year. This equates to 111 percent of the 938 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 42 incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 861. There were 40 incidents of tobacco. For 635 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 624 suspensions, while 419 girls were suspended.

There were 1,043 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 140. There were two incidents of tobacco. For 72 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	0	0
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	40	2
Other reason	861	140
Total	901	142

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	635	17
2-3 days	193	15
3-4 days	73	38
4-10 days	0	72
More than 10 days	0	0