MORE than 1,300 pupils were excluded, with two schools each sending home a quarter of all their pupils at some point during the last school year, according to latest figures obtained by the Chronicle.

The total number of pupils excluded - 1,315 - equates to 11.5 per cent of all pupils in the ten state secondary schools across the borough.

This is up from last year when 1,175 pupils (10.1 per cent) were subjected to fixed term exclusions, where students are sent home for a day or more for their behaviour.

In total pupils spent 7,129 days excluded between them - almost 20 years - although that figure was down more than 300 from the year before, indicating a mixture of shorter exclusions and fewer repeat exclusions.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle