Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Suspensions and permanent exclusions - by geography

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Published 10 July 2025

Last updated 10 July 2025

Number and percentage of suspensions and permanent exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension, broken down at National, Regional and Local Authority level.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Number of rows: 11,644
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Number of schools
  • Suspensions
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2006/07 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_identifier	time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	education_phase	num_schools	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Academic year	202324	National	E92000001	England						Total	21366	8445343	10885	0.12889	954952	11.30744	341266	4.04088
Academic year	202324	National	E92000001	England						State-funded primary	16796	4614990	1462	0.03168	104803	2.27093	45883	0.99422
Academic year	202324	National	E92000001	England						State-funded secondary	3475	3669933	9298	0.25336	829896	22.61338	287265	7.82753
Academic year	202324	National	E92000001	England						Special	1095	160420	125	0.07792	20253	12.62498	8118	5.06047
Academic year	202324	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Total	1102	394854	994	0.25174	72728	18.41896	18917	4.79088

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School Type - State-funded primary, secondary and special
headcount	Headcount
num_schools	Number of schools
one_plus_susp	Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension
one_plus_susp_rate	Pupil enrolments with one or more suspension (rate)

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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.

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