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ALMOST 3000 high school students in the Lockyer Valley have been suspended in the past five years, new data has revealed.
Twenty Lockyer Valley public schools, both primary and secondary, have issued a collective 9192 suspensions between 2019 and 2019.
The data, which comes form the Queensland Education Department, revealed Laidley State High School suspended the most students during the five-year time frame.
In total, the Laidley high school issued 1570 suspensions – 1452 if which were classified as short suspensions, 66 long suspensions and 17 exclusions.
The data comes as the
Gatton Star and
Courier Mail reveal a staggering 374,506 suspensions have given to students across give years – three times as more as the ACT and twice as many as NSW schools.