Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by characteristic

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Published 23 November 2023

Last updated 23 November 2023

Termly number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension by pupil characteristics. Includes breakdowns by age, gender, national curriculum year, ethnicity, Free School Meals and Special Educational Needs. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
• Release: Autumn term 2022/23
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Permanent exclusions
  • Permanent exclusions (rate)
• Filters:
  • Characteristic
  • School Type
• Time period: 2019/20 Autumn term to 2022/23 Autumn term

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_identifier	time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	old_la_code	la_name	school_type	characteristic_group	characteristic	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Summer term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000017	857	Rutland	Total	Age	Age 9	413	0	0.00000000000000	2	0.48426150121065	2	0.48426150121065
Spring term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000017	857	Rutland	State-funded primary	Ethnicity Detailed	Any other Asian background	13	0	0.00000000000000	0	0.00000000000000	0	0.00000000000000
Summer term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000017	857	Rutland	State-funded primary	Ethnicity Detailed	Any other Black/African/Caribbean background	15	0	0.00000000000000	0	0.00000000000000	0	0.00000000000000
Summer term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000017	857	Rutland	State-funded secondary	Ethnicity Detailed	Any other Black/African/Caribbean background	12	0	0.00000000000000	1	8.33333333333333	1	8.33333333333333
Spring term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E06000017	857	Rutland	Total	Ethnicity Detailed	Any other Black/African/Caribbean background	27	0	0.00000000000000	1	3.70370370370370	1	3.70370370370370

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic	Characteristic - Detail of age, gender, national curriculum year, ethnicity, fsm, SEN
headcount	Headcount
one_plus_susp	Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension
one_plus_susp_rate	Pupil enrolments with one or moresuspension (rate)
perm_excl	Permanent exclusions

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Footnotes

1. For 2019/20 and 2020/21, while suspensions and permanent exclusions were possible throughout the academic year, pandemic restrictions will have had an impact on the numbers presented and caution should be taken when comparing across years.
2. Total pupil headcounts by ethnicity are only available at spring term each year. Exclusion and suspension rates by ethnicity are therefore calculated based on pupil headcounts as at spring term for the academic year. For Autumn 2022/23, the most recent headcounts available are at spring 2021/22. As a result, total headcounts by ethnicity will not sum to the same total as for other characteristics.
3. Data on one or more suspensions may not match the totals in the "Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by geography" data file - this occurs where a characteristic changes within the term and suspensions are recorded separately against each. For example, a pupil with multiple suspensions while recorded as not having SEN and with multiple suspensions while recorded as SEN support in the same term, will count as two enrolments in this data.

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