Peoria Standard

Midwest Central Community Unit School District 191 reported 126 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 126 students during the year. This equates to 14 percent of the 882 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 19 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, five incidents with drugs, two 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 39. There were three incidents of violence without injury. For 40 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 103 suspensions, while 23 girls were suspended.

There were 99 elementary or middle school students, and 27 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 57. There were 16 incidents of violence without injury. For 30 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	1	0
Violence without injury	3	16
Drug offenses	0	5
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	2
Tobacco	3	0
Other reason	39	57
Total	46	80

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	2
1-2 days	40	14
2-3 days	0	23
3-4 days	0	30
4-10 days	1	11
More than 10 days	0	0