Government of Jersey

School suspensions

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Authored by Children, Young People, Education and Skills and published on 10 December 2025.
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Request 768579396

In relation to my previous FOI request (gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8864, please can you break down the number of school suspensions related to racist incidents in Jersey from 2015 to the present date (2025), with the data broken down by school name.

Response

Information regarding the number of suspensions (exclusions) categorised as racist abuse in all Government of Jersey schools from 2018-2025 is provided in the table below, broken down by School.

Where a Government of Jersey school is not listed in the table, they have no exclusions recorded categorised as racist abuse.

School	Total exclusions categorised as racist abuse for all academic years
Grainville	28
Haute Vallée	34
Hautlieu	<5
Le Rocquier	16
Les Quennevais	6
Victoria College	6
Janvrin	<5
St Saviours	<5

Exclusion data is only available from the 2018/2019 academic year, therefore anything before this is not held. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

To break down the number of exclusions into individual academic years for each school would likely disclose personal information due to low numbers. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

Articles Applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority)

were omitted.