The North Tyneside secondary schools with the highest and lowest rates of pupil suspensions for poor behaviour

Suspensions are when a pupil is excluded from school for a set period of time, generally due to incidents of poor behaviour or due to persistent disruptive behaviour.

As well as publishing the number of incidents of pupils being suspended in individual secondary schools the Department for Education also publishes suspension rates which is the number of suspensions for every 100 pupils in the school population across the academic year.

A number of North Tyneside schools had a suspension rate in excess of 100, meaning there were more incidents of suspensions for every 100 pupils during the academic than the actual number of students.

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This doesn’t mean all pupils had a suspension as a number of students may account for a disproportionate number of suspensions.

The national suspension rate for the same academic year was 11.31, meaning across England's schools, on average, there were just over 11 incidents of suspensions for every 100 pupils.

Check out the suspension rates and totals for North Tynes’de schools based on the most recently published Government data (2023/24).