Pupil Exclusions
(asked on 13th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, of the 15 per cent of schools in England who excluded at least one child in 2016–17, what percentage of those schools were (1) maintained schools, and (2) academies.
Data from the National Statistics release on ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ shows that 3,063 (14%) of state funded primary, secondary and special schools had at least one permanent exclusion in 2016/17. The table below shows the proportion of these that are maintained schools and academies by school type. The data in the table below is also available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.
| Number of schools with one or more permanent exclusion | % that are academies | % that are maintained schools |
State funded primary | 1,022 | 31% | 69% |
State funded secondary | 1,981 | 66% | 34% |
Special | 60 | 25% | 75% |
All schools | 3,063 | 53% | 47% |