School exclusions: Calderdale’s league of shame

Secondary schools excluded 2,971 pupils, while primary schools excluded 381 children.

St Catherine’s Catholic High, which closed in July 2013, had the most exclusions of any secondary school in the borough with 872.

Lee Mount had the highest number of fixed and premanent exclusions combined of any primary school in Calderdale with 35.

Listed below is every state school in Calderdale that handed out a fixed or permanent exclusion and the combined number of exclusions at each school:

Secondary Schools

St Catherine’s Catholic High - 872

Park Lane - 465

Sowerby Bridge High - 380

Calder High - 366

Ryburn Valley - 343

Todmorden High - 316

Halifax High - 97

Crossley Heath - 16

Ravenscliffe - 5

Primary Schools

Lee Mount - 35

Ferney Lee - 30

Moorside - 27

Cliffe Hill - 24

Shelf - 22

Field Lane - 21

Riverside - 18

West Vale - 14

Halifax Holy Trinity - 13

Christ Church (Pellon) - 12

Ling Bob - 11

Lightcliffe CE, Elland CE - 10

St Joseph’s (Brighouse), Cragg Vale - 9

Carr Green, Luddenden Dene, Cornholme - 8

Longroyde, Triangle - 7

New Road - 6

St Mary’s CE, St Andrew’s - 5

St Malachy’s, Tuel Lane, St Joseph’s (Todmorden), Salterhebble, Christ Church (Sowerby) - 4

Woodhouse, Sowerby Village, Northowram, Highbury, St Michael’s and All Angels, Rawson - 3

Dean Field, Warley Road, St Joseph’s (Halifax), Shade, St Augustine’s - 2

Bowling Green, Holywell, Old Town, Mount Pellon, Sacred Heart, Walsden St Peter’s, Withinfields, Wainstalls, Hebden Royd, Bradshaw, St Mary’s Catholic, St Patrick’s - 1