Peoria Standard

The Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center has been found fully compliant with state standards following its annual inspection by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. The inspection took place on August 19, 2025, in accordance with 730 ILCS 5/3-15-2(b).

John Albright, Chief of Performance and Innovation at the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, led the inspection. He conducted interviews with facility staff including the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent of Compliance, Youth Detention Specialists, a Mental Health Practitioner, two educators, a nurse, and four residents. The review covered several operational areas such as admission policy and procedures, detention programs, youth discipline and confinement practices, grievance processes for youth, medical healthcare services, mental health support services, and education.

No areas of non-compliance were identified during or after the inspection. "During the inspection and through publication, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice identified no areas of non-compliance," according to the official report. The department will publish the full 2025 Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center Inspection Report. The report will be available for public review on both the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center’s website and the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice’s website.

In related educational data from Peoria County schools for the 2022-23 academic year: there was an average student-to-teacher ratio of 15-to-1 across all county schools (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx), with a total enrollment of 27,081 students supported by 1,844 full-time faculty members. Teacher absenteeism in Peoria County stood at 32.3%, slightly below the state average of 35.6% (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx). Dunlap High School had the highest enrollment of white students at 873; Richwoods High School recorded the largest number of multiracial students at 182; Lincoln School had the most Hispanic students enrolled at 218; and Peoria High School had the highest Black student enrollment at 798 (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Home.aspx).

For more information or to access reports related to juvenile detention center compliance or school demographics in Peoria County, visit their respective websites.