Drauden Point Middle School reports 111 incidents of students being suspended just in 2023-24 school year

Drauden Point Middle School reported 111 suspensions just during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Illinois Report Card.

In total, there were 111 disciplinary actions recorded during the school year, representing a rate of approximately 16.5 incidents per 100 of the school's enrolled students.

The school reported that most in-school suspensions were given for incidents involving violence without physical injury, with 11 recorded cases. There were also four incidents involving tobacco and drugs. Additionally, 78 cases were classified under "other reason" or left unspecified.

There were 80 disciplinary incidents involving male students. Another 31 incidents involved female students.

All 111 suspensions issued in the Drauden Point Middle School schools involved elementary or middle school students.

Out-of-school suspensions most commonly were for incidents involving violence without physical injury, with 10 cases reported. Additionally, five cases were classified under the "other reason" category.

In terms of ethnicity, Black students, which made up 19.2% of the Drauden Point Middle School student body, were suspended the most in the school, with 53 suspensions reported during the 2023-24 school year. They were followed by Hispanic students, who made up 30.3% of the student body, and received 28 suspensions.

Drauden Point Middle School is located in the Plainfield School District 202, and has a main office in Plainfield.

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.