Spring term 2021/22

Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England

Data on suspensions and permanent exclusions, including by reason, duration, by pupil characteristics and data on independent review panels.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 20 April 2023
• Last updated: 25 April 2023

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• National - Permanent exclusions and suspensions, number and rate, by school type

  Contains the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions, by school type (primary, secondary and special), from autumn term 2016/17 to spring term 2021/22

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• Regional - Permanent exclusion and suspension rates, by region and school type

  Contains the rate of permanent exclusion, suspension and pupils with one or more suspension , by region and school type, 2021/22 Spring Term

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• Local authority - permanent exclusions and suspensions - number and rates

  Contains the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions by local authority, all schools (total of primary, secondary and special) in spring term 2021/22

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• Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by geography

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Termly number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension.

  • Number of rows: 10,990
  • Indicators:
    • Headcount
    • Number of schools
    • Permanent exclusions
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by reason

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Termly number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions by reason for exclusion. Includes multiple reasons for exclusion from 2020/21.

  • Number of rows: 10,541
  • Indicators:
    • Permanent - Abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity
    • Permanent - Abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity (%)
    • Permanent - Abuse relating to disability
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Permanent exclusions and suspensions - pupil referral units

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Termly number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension by term in pupil referral units.

  • Number of rows: 2,587
  • Indicators:
    • Headcount
    • Number of schools
    • Permanent exclusions
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Suspensions - average number of suspensions and average days missed per pupil

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Average number of suspensions and average days lost per suspended pupil.

  • Number of rows: 10,801
  • Indicators:
    • Average days missed per suspended pupil. (Number of days of suspension / pupils with one or more suspension).
    • Average number of suspensions per excluded pupil. (Number of suspensions/ pupils with one or more suspension).
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Suspensions - number of suspensions per pupil

  National

  Number of pupils by the number of suspensions they have received.

  • Number of rows: 1,293
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils
  • Filters:
    • Number of suspensions
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Suspensions - total days missed per pupil

  National

  Number of pupil enrolments by total length of suspensions accrued across the academic year.

  • Number of rows: 2,569
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils
  • Filters:
    • Number of days missed to suspensions
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Suspensions - duration of suspensions

  National

  Number of suspensions by length of suspension in days

  • Number of rows: 2,273
  • Indicators:
    • Number of suspensions
  • Filters:
    • Duration of suspension in days
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Permanent exclusions and suspensions - school level

  School

  Number and percentage of permanent exclusions and suspensions and those pupils receiving one or more suspension, broken down at school level. Includes trust name where applicable.

  • Number of rows: 360,978
  • Indicators:
    • Headcount
    • Permanent exclusions
    • Permanent exclusions (rate)
  • Filters:
    • School Type
  • Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2021/22 Spring term

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• Permanent exclusions and suspensions - by characteristics

  Local authority, National, Regional

  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.

  • Number of rows: 280,570
  • 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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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This page describes the data included in the ‘Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England: Autumn term 2021/22’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This release provides information on exclusions in: 

• state-funded primary schools
• state-funded secondary schools
• special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
• pupil referral units

The information is based on data collected via the school census

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had rounding or suppression applied. 

Conventions 

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data. 

‘z’ Not applicable.

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