Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Suspensions and permanent exclusions - school level

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Published 24 April 2025

Last updated 24 April 2025

Termly number and percentage of suspensions and permanent exclusions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension, broken down at school level.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
• Release: Spring term 2023/24
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Suspensions
  • Suspension (rate)
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2023/24 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	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	estab	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	trust_name	academy_type	academy_open_date	education_phase	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Autumn term	202324	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	3614	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	z	z	z	State-funded primary	235	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spring term	202324	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	3614	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	z	z	z	State-funded primary	244	0	0	1	0.40984	1	0.40984
Autumn term	202223	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	3614	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	z	z	z	State-funded primary	269	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spring term	202223	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	3614	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	z	z	z	State-funded primary	271	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summer term	202223	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	3614	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	z	z	z	State-funded primary	273	0	0	1	0.3663	1	0.3663

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School Type - State-funded primary, secondary and special
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.

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