In a recent blog, we showed how official statistics on numbers of pupils attending alternative provision schools are an under-estimate.
Briefly, statistics tend to ignore pupils with subsidiary registrations. In addition, statistics tend to be based on enrolments in January of each year. AP schools tend to “fill up” as the year progresses, with more pupils on roll in Summer than the rest of the year.
In this article, we examine the characteristics of pupils attending AP schools, comparing the 12,800 pupils with subsidiary registrations to 13,800 pupils with other types of registration.
We use data from the Summer School Census in 2022 linked to data on pupils’ exclusion (and suspension) histories and their absence data from 2022.
