| The number
of half days during which secondary school pupils were temporarily
excluded is given below. City of Edinburgh and West
Lothian education authorities were unable to provide data
for temporary exclusions in secondary schools. |
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| Table 3:
Temporary exclusions from secondary schools, 1997/98 |
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| Temporary
exclusions in secondary schools, across all stages
(excluding S6), averaged 90 half days for each 100
pupils, a very large increase on the figure for primary
schools (7 half days). It is not possible, from the data
provided, to determine the actual number of pupils
excluded. Some pupils were excluded more than once and
exclusions were of varying lengths. If the average
temporary exclusion lasted 3 days in secondary schools,
then there would have been 43123 incidents of temporary
exclusion during 1997/98. If the average temporary
exclusion lasted 5 days in secondary schools, then there
would have been 25874 incidents of temporary exclusion
during 1997/98. |
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| There are 38
school weeks in an academic year. Temporary exclusions
were equivalent to 680 secondary pupils being absent for
all of the 1997/98 school session, equivalent to a medium
sized secondary school. |
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| Put another
way, temporary exclusions meant that taken overall,
secondary school pupils across Scotland missed 0.25% of
their possible attendance for this reason. |
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| The number
of temporary exclusions increases throughout the primary
school and into the secondary school where it reached a
peak at S3. |
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| The average
figure for temporary exclusions in P7 was 16 half days
for each 100 pupils in Scotland. In S1 the figure was 62
half days for each 100 pupils in Scotland. By S4, it was
114 half days for each 100 pupils, having been 142 for
each 100 pupils in S3. |
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| 4.
Education authority information on attendance and absence |
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| The graphs
in this section compare the percentages of authorised and
unauthorised absence in primary and secondary schools in
all education authorities with each other and with the
national averages. The national average is shown as a
horizontal line on each graph. |
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| The average
percentage absence in primary schools in the individual
education authorities does not vary greatly from the
national level of just below 6%. In secondary schools,
however, the national average absence is just over 11%.
The average absence varies more across education
authorities, ranging from 6% in Orkney Islands and 7% in
Scottish Borders councils up to 14% in Dundee City, 14%
in Inverclyde and 18% in Glasgow City councils. |
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