Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by geography

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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.

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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
  • Number of schools
  • Permanent exclusions
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2022/23 Autumn term

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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	school_type	num_schools	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Spring term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000006	East of England	874	E06000031	Peterborough	State-funded secondary	14	18178	9	0.04951	903	4.96754	571	3.14116
Spring term	201819	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	867	E06000036	Bracknell Forest	State-funded primary	30	10585	0	0.00000	52	0.49126	27	0.25508
Spring term	201920	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	355	E08000006	Salford	Special	4	779	0	0.00000	9	1.15533	7	0.89859
Spring term	202122	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	370	E08000016	Barnsley	State-funded secondary	11	13285	23	0.17313	1627	12.24689	724	5.44976
Spring term	201920	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	800	E06000022	Bath and North East Somerset	Special	3	496	0	0.00000	30	6.04839	20	4.03226

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
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 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.

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