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Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School students suspended 941 times just in 2023-24 school year

 
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School students suspended 941 times just in 2023-24 school year
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Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School reported 941 suspensions just during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.

In total, there were 941 disciplinary actions recorded during the school year, representing a rate of approximately 51.1 incidents per 100 of the school's enrolled students.

The school reported that most in-school suspensions were given for incidents involving tobacco, with three recorded cases. There were also two incidents involving violence without physical injury. Additionally, 728 cases were classified under "other reason" or left unspecified.

There were 583 disciplinary incidents involving male students. Another 358 incidents involved female students.

All 941 suspensions issued in the Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School schools involved high school students.

Out-of-school suspensions most commonly were for incidents involving drugs, with 36 cases reported. Additionally, 101 cases were classified under the "other reason" category.

In terms of ethnicity, white students, which made up 64.1% of the Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School student body, were suspended the most in the school, with 406 suspensions reported during the 2023-24 school year. They were followed by Black students, who made up 11.5% of the student body, and received 234 suspensions.

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School is located in the Bradley-Bourbonnais Consolidated High School District 307, 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.

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School Student Discipline Report in 2023-24 School Year
Type of IncidentIn-School SuspensionOut-of-School Suspension
Alcohol-2
Violence with injury-12
Violence without injury226
Drug offenses-36
Firearm--
Other dangerous weapons-2
Tobacco329
Other reason728101
Total733208
Length of Suspensions in Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School in 2023-24 School Year
DurationIn-School SuspensionOut-of-School Suspension
One day or less1-
1-2 days70588
2-3 days2128
3-4 days427
4-10 days237
More than 10 days-28