More than 49,000 pupils ‘disappeared’ from English schools – study
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Data reveals one in 12 schoolchildren in 2012–17 were removed from rolls without explanation.
By Sally Weale
An investigation into the true scale of ‘off-rolling’ from schools in England has found that more than 49,000 pupils from a single cohort disappeared from the school rolls without explanation.
Researchers from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) said that one in 12 pupils (8.1%) from the national cohort who began secondary school in 2012 and finished in 2017 were removed from rolls at some point, for unknown reasons.
Off-rolling is the practice whereby schools remove difficult or low-achieving pupils from their rolls so that they are not included in their GCSE results, or in order to reduce costs.
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