Written question WQ97358

This information is in the two tables below and is taken from the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC). Only exclusions from mainstream schools are included. The data includes both permanent and fixed-term exclusions. Data for 2023/24 is not yet available.

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, schools were closed to some or all pupils in both the summer term 2019/20 and the spring term 2020/21. This impacts on the number of exclusions in both of these academic years.

Table 1: Number of pupils excluded from maintained schools, 2013/14 to 2017/18

Data includes both permanent and fixed-term exclusions.

Age

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Under 5

49

52

62

91

97

5

76

85

78

114

120

6

109

126

122

134

152

7

152

156

183

200

206

8

172

197

229

264

265

9

197

244

254

325

343

10

261

274

335

358

381

11

643

641

623

817

865

12

964

998

1,031

1,092

1,294

13

1,372

1,303

1,346

1,450

1,509

14

1,622

1,718

1,550

1,703

1,793

15

1,203

1,227

1,220

1,262

1,192

16 or over

118

70

81

97

79

All ages

6,938

7,091

7,114

7,907

8,296

Source: PLASC

Table 2: Number of pupils excluded from maintained schools, 2019/20 to 2022/23

Data includes both permanent and fixed-term exclusions.

Age

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

2022/23

Under 5

71

51

64

94

134

5

138

80

64

107

150

6

181

140

96

101

171

7

275

207

145

195

193

8

335

227

178

216

292

9

342

298

232

294

328

10

444

324

297

352

444

11

890

620

892

1,334

1,543

12

1,480

1,072

1,383

1,973

2,382

13

1,858

1,394

1,607

2,526

2,849

14

1,796

1,546

1,600

2,523

3,026

15

1,327

1,311

1,094

1,701

1,993

16 or over

69

41

49

85

86

All ages

9,206

7,311

7,701

11,501

13,591

Source: PLASC