[holding answer 20 June 2007]: The available information is given in the table.
Number of pupils Gender Boys 1,220 Girls 200 Total 1,420 Ethnic group White 1,090 White British 1,070 Irish 3— Traveller of Irish heritage 3— Gypsy/Roma 3— Any other White background 20 Mixed 70 White and Black Caribbean 30 White and Black African 10 White and Asian 10 Any other Mixed background 30 Asian 30 Indian 10 Pakistani 10 Bangladeshi 3— Any other Asian background 3— Black 80 Black Caribbean 50 Black African 10 Any other Black background 20 Chinese 0 Any other ethnic group 10 Pupils whose ethnicity has been classified under the old ethnic coding framework 50 Unclassified 90 Total 1,420 Special educational needs No identified SEN provision 550 SEN pupils without statements 580 SEN pupils with statements 300 Total 1,420 1 Includes middle schools as deemed. Includes non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. 2 This analysis is based on incomplete pupil level data. Any findings based on these figures should be used with caution. Those pupils who have been permanently excluded from more than one different school since 2000/01 to 2004/05 have been selected. 3 Less than 5 pupils. Notes: 1. Information presented here has been derived from an extract of the National Pupil Database which has selected pupils with multiple cases of permanent exclusion from different schools collected via the 2002 through to 2006 School Census’. The characteristic data shown relates to information provided for the pupils' most recent exclusion. 2. A new set of codes to record the ethnicity of pupils was introduced in 2002. Schools were initially permitted to report ethnic data using either the old and new set of codes between which there is no direct mapping. This analysis separately shows data for those pupils whose ethnic group has been classified under the old coding framework. 3. The new SEN code of practice came into force in 2002 and introduced new codes for recording stage of SEN. Both the new and old codes have been used here. 4. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown. Source: National Pupil Database.