Peoria Standard

Pleasant Valley School District 62 reported 87 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 87 students during the year. This equates to 20 percent of the 442 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 10 incidents with violence without physical injury, one incident with alcohol and tobacco.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 32. For 31 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 57 suspensions, while 30 girls were suspended.

There were 87 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 40. There were 10 incidents of violence without injury. For 24 incidents, students were suspended for one to two 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	0	10
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	1
Other reason	32	40
Total	32	55

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	2
1-2 days	31	24
2-3 days	0	11
3-4 days	0	14
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0