off-roll
verb [ I or T ] UK uk/ˌɒfˈrəʊl/ us/ˌɑːfˈroʊl/
开除（中小学生），除名，取消学籍（尤指开除纪律不好或成绩不佳的学生以提升学校总体表现）
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. 有人担心，有些中小学可能会开除纪律或成绩不佳的学生以提升学校总体表现。
Any schools that are off-rolling are likely to be judged inadequate for leadership and management by Ofsted. 任何通过开除纪律或成绩不佳的学生以提升总体表现的学校都有可能被教育标准局判定为领导和管理不力。
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- 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.