Data set from Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

01 - Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by school and geographic level (2006-07 to 2020-21)

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Published 28 July 2022

Last updated 28 July 2022

Number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension, broken down at National, Regional, Local Authority and school level. School level rates included from 2015/16 only.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Number of rows: 329,893
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount
  • Number of schools
  • Permanent exclusions
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2006/07 to 2020/21

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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	academy_type	academy_open_date	school_type	num_schools	headcount	perm_excl	perm_excl_rate	suspension	susp_rate	one_plus_susp	one_plus_susp_rate
Academic year	202021	National	E92000001	England										z	z	z	Total	21304	8291354	3928	0.04737	352454	4.25086	182459	2.20059
Academic year	202021	National	E92000001	England										z	z	z	state-funded primary	16810	4660682	392	0.00841	46203	0.99134	24418	0.52391
Academic year	202021	National	E92000001	England										z	z	z	state-funded secondary	3438	3493089	3492	0.09997	296224	8.48029	153006	4.38025
Academic year	202021	National	E92000001	England										z	z	z	special	1056	137583	44	0.03198	10027	7.28796	5035	3.65961
Academic year	202021	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East								z	z	z	Total	1099	391922	325	0.08292	27310	6.96822	10755	2.74417

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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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