Peoria Standard

East Peoria School District 86 reported 206 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 206 students during the year. This equates to 15 percent of the 1,398 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 13 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, 10 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,five incidents 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 70. There were four incidents of tobacco. For 58 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 147 suspensions, while 59 girls were suspended.

There were 206 elementary or middle 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 104. There were 10 incidents of violence with injury. For 37 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	0
Violence with injury	3	10
Violence without injury	0	2
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	1	1
Other dangerous weapons	0	5
Tobacco	4	6
Other reason	70	104
Total	78	128

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	8	1
1-2 days	58	33
2-3 days	11	37
3-4 days	1	27
4-10 days	0	30
More than 10 days	0	0