Bradley East Elementary School reports 1 incident of students being suspended in 2023-24 school year

Bradley East Elementary School reported one suspension during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.

In total, there was one disciplinary action recorded during the school year, representing a rate of approximately 0.2 incidents per 100 of the school's enrolled students.

Only male students were subject to disciplinary actions, with the only boy disciplined being suspended one time.

The only suspension issued in the county involved elementary or middle school student.

The only out-of-school suspension was for incident involving violence without physical injury.

The only student suspended during the 2023-24 school year in Bradley East Elementary School was Hispanic, who made up 21.2% population.

Bradley East Elementary School is located in the Bradley School District 61, and has a main office in Bradley.

Illinois allocated $8.6 billion to K-12 education in its 2025 budget—a $350 million increase over FY 2024, meeting the minimum required under the state’s school funding formula.

In 2024, Illinois registered a teacher retention rate of almost 90%. Yet, around 91% of superintendents reported having a 'serious' problem teacher shortage problem. In total, almost 4,100 teaching positions remained vacant by the end of the year.

“They’re putting a substitute in there, that’s somebody with a four-year degree that’s not in teaching. They’re using a retired teacher…or worse than that, they’re canceling the class, putting the kids in other classrooms, putting them in study hall, but those are strategies we have to use if there’s no qualified teacher,” said Beth Crider, regional superintendent of Peoria County Regional Office of Education #48.