Schools must effectively involve students in learning to ensure educational success. Stand-downs, suspensions, and exclusions help provide indications of where engagement in productive learning may be absent and behavioural issues may be present. Stand-downs, suspensions and exclusions are not measures of student behaviour but measures of a school's reaction to behaviour. What one school may choose to suspend for another may not.
Table 1: Age-standardised stand-down rate by gender and ethnic group (2018)
Group
Observed stand-downs
Baseline stand-downs
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students
Female
1
2.6
9.8
Male
29
3.1
238.3
Māori
22
4.4
127.9
Pacific
x
x
x
Asian
x
x
x
Other
0
0.0
0.0
European/Pākehā
8
1.1
179.7
Total
30
5.7
134.4
Notes:
Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’baseline’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab.
International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.
‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.
Ethnicity is prioritised. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students are included with ‘Other’.
Table 2: Comparison stand-down rates data (2018)
Comparison group
Observed stand-downs
Baseline stand-downs
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students
Selwyn School
30
5.7
134.4
Bay of Plenty Region
1420
1,395.5
26.0
Contributing
3417
3,295.3
26.5
State: Not Integrated
18384
16,923.2
27.7
Decile 02
2404
1,283.0
47.8
New Zealand
19412
19,412.0
25.5
Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’baseline’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab.
International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.
‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.
Comparison groups are selected based on profile of school at time of data collection.
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Data InterpretationSchools must effectively involve students in learning to ensure educational success. Stand-downs, suspensions, and exclusions help provide indications of where engagement in productive learning may be absent and behavioural issues may be present. Stand-downs, suspensions and exclusions are not measures of student behaviour but measures of a school's reaction to behaviour. What one school may choose to suspend for another may not.
Identical information is available by regional council and territorial local authority through the Know Your Region pages.
Identical information is available for the school’s Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako through the Communities of Learning page: Te Maru o Ngongotaha (Rotorua) Community of Learning.
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