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Exclusions from schools 2006/07

29/01/2008

Scotland's Chief Statistician today published a range of statistics relating to exclusions from Scotland's schools.

The main findings are:

• During 2006/07 there were 44,794 exclusions from local authority schools in Scotland. This equates to six exclusions per hundred pupils and is a four per cent increase from 2005/06
• About 23,000 different pupils (three per cent of pupils) were excluded during the year
• Various factors such as deprivation, having additional support needs and being looked after by the local authority increase the likelihood that a pupil will be excluded

National statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.