Peoria Standard

Illinois Valley Central Unit School District 321 reported 76 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 76 students during the year. This equates to four percent of the 2,035 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for five incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 13 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, nine incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were two. There was one incident of violence with injury. For three incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 61 suspensions, while 15 girls were suspended.

There were 26 elementary or middle school students, and 50 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 44. There were 13 incidents of violence without injury. For 31 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	1	4
Violence without injury	0	13
Drug offenses	0	9
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	3
Other reason	2	44
Total	3	73

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	2
1-2 days	3	31
2-3 days	0	10
3-4 days	0	18
4-10 days	0	12
More than 10 days	0	0