Permanent exclusions and suspensions from schools, England
Accredited official statistics
Permanent exclusions and suspensions from state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in England each school year since 2006/07, with the DfE's rates, from the Department for Education.
Permanent exclusions
9,906
2024/25 · 0.12% of pupils; 913,000 suspensions, 10.88%
Verified against source, 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC- Permanent exclusions
- Suspensions
Source: Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
19 periods, newest first
| Period | Permanent exclusions | Suspensions |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 9,906 | 913,000 |
| 2023/24 | 10,885 | 954,952 |
| 2022/23 | 9,376 | 786,961 |
| 2021/22 | 6,495 | 578,280 |
| 2020/21 | 3,928 | 352,454 |
| 2019/20 | 5,057 | 310,733 |
| 2018/19 | 7,894 | 438,265 |
| 2017/18 | 7,905 | 410,753 |
| 2016/17 | 7,719 | 381,864 |
| 2015/16 | 6,684 | 339,362 |
| 2014/15 | 5,795 | 302,975 |
| 2013/14 | 4,949 | 269,475 |
| 2012/13 | 4,632 | 267,520 |
| 2011/12 | 5,166 | 304,372 |
| 2010/11 | 5,082 | 324,106 |
| 2009/10 | 5,741.02 | 331,380 |
| 2008/09 | 6,546 | 363,277 |
| 2007/08 | 8,126 | 383,831 |
| 2006/07 | 8,678 | 425,588 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Education
- Check it yourself
- https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/suspensions-and-permanent-exclusions-in-england
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 7 November 2026, 06:48 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/data-set-files?publicationId=bf2b4284-6b84-46b0-aaaa-a2e0a23be2a9&latestOnly=true&pageSize=40&page=1SHA-256 2171b1ca2eb4d19ae26387433714928cb9fcbf34aa572431c79a72b8367b64c7 · 33,597 bytes
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/0e388e4d-3748-49a4-984c-08dece27c222/files?fileIds=a155544d-74aa-4291-22a7-08decde94ad4SHA-256 a01cc91fe456c85bc63da6deebbe5b12733a7ce2bebbd53e5e0883b8f96fcbc6 · 386,941 bytes
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Verification
Verified against source, 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC Run at 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC; 38 of 38 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Education; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-07T06:48:38Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 38 of 38 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's rates match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 38 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 38 of 38 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's rates match |
| Pass | EES file is current | the latest period, 2024/25, ended on 2025-07-31, 464 days before retrieval (limit 750), from Academic year 2024/25 |
| Not run | Second official route | no second route is published: the DfE gives these national figures only in this release's files, and its termly file and its phases and regions, which the checks add up to them, are parts of them |
| Pass | The phases add up to the total: permanent exclusions | 19 of 19 cases of the years' permanent exclusions from primary, secondary and special schools add up to the total, 1 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2006/07 (-20) |
| Pass | The phases add up to the total: suspensions | 19 of 19 cases of the years' suspensions from primary, secondary and special schools add up to the total |
| Pass | The regions add up to England: permanent exclusions | 19 of 19 cases of the years' permanent exclusions in England's nine regions (London as Inner and Outer London where the DfE gives it so) add up to England's, 1 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2006/07 (-20) |
| Pass | The regions add up to England: suspensions | 19 of 19 cases of the years' suspensions in England's nine regions (London as Inner and Outer London where the DfE gives it so) add up to England's |
| Pass | The terms add up to the year: permanent exclusions | 9 of 9 cases of the years the termly file gives whole, permanent exclusions in its three terms add up to the year's, 3 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2023/24 (-2), 2022/23 (+1), 2021/22 (+2) |
| Pass | The terms add up to the year: suspensions | 9 of 9 cases of the years the termly file gives whole, suspensions in its three terms add up to the year's, 4 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2023/24 (-106), 2022/23 (+260), 2021/22 (+182), 2016/17 (-1) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/suspensions-and-permanent-exclusions-in-england – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Permanent exclusions and suspensions from state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in England in each school year, as the DfE counts them from the school census, with its rates: each as a percentage of the pupils on roll (the headcount it gives beside them).
- Alternative provision is counted apart and is not in these figures.