Suspensions, exclusions and expulsions

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

Count of students being suspended, excluded or expelled and number of incidents in each category during Term 2 of each year from 2012.

Suspension from school means that the student does not attend school for a period of time ranging from one to five school days. Exclusion from a school means that the student does not attend that school for either a set period of time ranging from four to ten weeks OR for the remainder of a term; or for students over 16, the remainder of the semester. Expulsion from a single school means that a student who is over the age of compulsion does not attend school for a period of not less than six consecutive months to not more than eighteen consecutive months. Expulsion from all DECD schools means that a student who is over the age of compulsion is permanently expelled from attending all DECD schools. Incidents – Behaviour incidents that resulted in a suspension, exclusion or expulsion.

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Field Value
Title Suspensions, exclusions and expulsions
Language eng
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/eff0ec53-5ef3-427f-8de5-e50929b6834f
Remote Last Updated 19/12/2024
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Reference Period 01/04/2012 - 31/07/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal South Australia Government

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This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "Suspensions, exclusions and expulsions". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/suspensions-exclusions-and-expulsions