Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Suspensions and permanent exclusions - by characteristic

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Published 18 April 2024

Last updated 18 April 2024

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 (FSM) eligibility and Special Educational Needs. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
• Release: Spring term 2022/23
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Permanent exclusions
  • Permanent exclusions (rate)
• Filters:
  • Pupil characteristic
  • School Type
• Time period: 2019/20 Autumn term to 2022/23 Spring 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	breakdown_topic	breakdown	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Autumn term	202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	Age	Age 10	58817	18	0.030603397	503	0.855194927	332	0.564462655
Autumn term	202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	Age	Age 11	58200	21	0.036082474	2749	4.723367698	1225	2.104810997
Autumn term	202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	Age	Age 12	57026	61	0.106968751	4681	8.208536457	2182	3.826324834
Autumn term	202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	Age	Age 13	55698	69	0.123882366	5538	9.942906388	2629	4.72009767
Autumn term	202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	Age	Age 14	55666	84	0.150900011	5243	9.418675673	2737	4.916825351

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Pupil 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 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.  As a result, total headcounts by ethnicity may not sum to the same total as for other characteristics.
3. From 2023/24 the school census data item ‘sex’ replaced ‘gender’. Historical use of the word “gender” in the data collection may have meant that “gender identity” was reported in some cases, as opposed to legal sex. While this is unlikely to have a significant effect on overall figures, it may affect figures in more granular subdivisions. Time-series in this publication prior to spring 2023 which contained gender as a category may be affected.
4. 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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