Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by characteristics

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Published 20 April 2023

Last updated 20 April 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: Spring term 2021/22
• 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 2021/22 Spring 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	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	202122	National	E92000001	England						Total	Age	Age 10	666198	47	0.00705495963600	5073	0.76148532418200	3432	0.51516215899700
Spring term	202122	National	E92000001	England						Total	Age	Age 10	667228	69	0.01034129263100	5475	0.82055908924600	3952	0.59230128232000
Autumn term	202122	National	E92000001	England						State-funded primary	Age	Age 10	635296	46	0.00724071928600	4551	0.71635898856500	3097	0.48748929632800
Spring term	202122	National	E92000001	England						State-funded primary	Age	Age 10	636151	67	0.01053209065100	4928	0.77465884672000	3595	0.56511740137100
Spring term	202122	National	E92000001	England						State-funded secondary	Age	Age 10	20820	2	0.00960614793400	243	1.16714697406300	155	0.74447646493700

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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. For autumn 2021/22, the most recent headcounts available were at spring 2020/21. As a result, total headcounts by ethnicity will not sum to the same total as for other characteristics.

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