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Stand-downs

Data Interpretation

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.

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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 448 979.3 11.7
Male 1022 1,036.1 25.2
Māori 711 437.3 41.5
Pacific 155 203.3 19.5
Asian 31 221.5 3.6
Other 27 66.7 10.3
European/Pākehā 546 1,086.6 12.8
Region Total 1470 2,015.4 18.6
New Zealand Total 19412 19,412.0 25.5

Notes:

  1. 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.
  2. International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.
  3. ‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.
  4. Ethnicity is prioritised. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students are included with ‘Other’.

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