Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by geography (2006-07 to 2021-22)

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Published 20 July 2023

Last updated 20 July 2023

Number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions 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: Summer term 2021/22
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Number of schools
  • Permanent exclusions
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2006/07 to 2021/22

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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
Academic year	201415	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000002	Outer London	307	E09000009	Ealing	Special	6	647	0	0.00000	3	0.46368	3	0.46368
Academic year	201415	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000002	Outer London	311	E09000016	Havering	Total	81	37842	39	0.10306	1091	2.88304	677	1.78902
Academic year	201415	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000002	Outer London	312	E09000017	Hillingdon	Special	10	757	0	0.00000	25	3.30251	14	1.84941
Academic year	201415	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000002	Outer London	312	E09000017	Hillingdon	State-funded secondary	21	19739	32	0.16212	1381	6.99630	810	4.10355
Academic year	201415	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000002	Outer London	313	E09000018	Hounslow	State-funded primary	53	23672	0	0.00000	85	0.35907	68	0.28726

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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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