0 to remove a student from a school roll (= official list of students), especially a difficult or under-achieving student, in order to make the school seem more successful:
There are concerns that some schools may be off-rolling pupils.
Any schools that are off-rolling are likely to be judged inadequate for leadership and management by Ofsted.
A quarter of teachers have witnessed pupils being off-rolled from schools.
The main reason for schools to off-roll a pupil was to manipulate league tables.
Ofsted recently revealed that from 2016 to 2017, 19,000 pupils were off-rolled.
