MORE than 12 per cent of all school pupils in Barnsley have been excluded from school at some point over the last year and one school sent home almost a third of its pupils, according to latest figures obtained by the Chronicle.
In total 1,357 pupils were handed fixed term exclusions - where students are sent home for a day or more for their behaviour - during the school year which ended in July.
This equates to 12.2 per cent of all pupils in the ten state secondary schools across the borough. It’s a slight rise from 11.5 per cent last year and 10.1 per cent the year before.
In total pupils spent 8,232 days excluded between them - an equivalent of more than 22 years. This was up 15 per cent on last year’s 7,129 days and has grown significantly more than the number of pupils excluded, which suggests a mixture of longer exclusions and more repeat offenders.
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