Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Suspensions and permanent exclusions by geography

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Published 20 November 2025

Last updated 20 November 2025

Termly number and rates of suspensions and permanent exclusions 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 2024/25
• Number of rows: 16,173
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Number of schools
  • Suspensions
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2024/25 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	education_phase	num_schools	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Autumn term	202425	National	E92000001	England						Total	21275	8349844	3715	0.04449	335671	4.02009	165649	1.98386
Autumn term	202425	National	E92000001	England						State-funded primary	16724	4506247	524	0.01163	39914	0.88575	22720	0.50419
Autumn term	202425	National	E92000001	England						State-funded secondary	3453	3676826	3128	0.08507	287306	7.81397	138131	3.7568
Autumn term	202425	National	E92000001	England						Special	1098	166771	63	0.03778	8451	5.06743	4798	2.877
Autumn term	202425	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Total	1099	387659	327	0.08435	25830	6.66307	9859	2.54321

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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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