Student stand-downs from New Zealand schools

2001–2023, number of stand-downs

The following information applies to all values in the table. Measure: Stand-down cases in schools
Year	Number of stand-downs
2001	17,106
2002	17,927
2003	19,872
2004	20,441
2005	21,943
2006	22,518
2007	20,938
2008	20,219
2009	20,142
2010	19,466
2011	17,598
2012	16,712
2013	15,521
2014	14,471
2015	14,208
2016	15,367
2017	17,733
2018	19,440
2019	22,277
2020	18,183
2021	20,996
2022	25,132
2023	30,702

Definitions

A state or state integrated school principal may consider the formal removal of a student through a stand-down from school for a period of up to 5 school days. A stand-down, for any student, can total no more than 5 school days in a term, or 10 days in a school year. Students return automatically to school following a stand-down.

Data calculation/treatment

The age-standardised stand-down rate is one where all subgroups, for all years, being compared are artificially given the same age distribution. In this indicator, the age distributions of students in each subgroup and year have been standardised to (or weighted by) the set of age-specific stand-down rates for all New Zealand.
As stand-downs are highest for ages 13 to 15, standardising for age will remove any differences due to one group having a younger or older population than other groups, or if the overall age distribution has changed from year to year. As such, the standardised rate is an artificial measure, but it does provide an estimate of how groups, or overall rates by year, might more fairly compare if they had the same age distribution.