Classroom of the Elite: Every Expelled Student So Far (Anime & Light Novel)

Getting expelled from school is usually just a bad bump in the road, but in the world of the Classroom of the Elite anime, it is the absolute end of the line.

Imagine going to a high school where you live on campus, everything is paid for, you get digital money every month just for attending, and if you graduate from the top class, you are guaranteed to get any job or go to any college you want. Sounds like a dream, right?

Well, the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School is more like a nightmare for students who cannot keep up. The worst thing that can happen to you here is getting kicked out. Once you are expelled, your life at this dream school is over forever, and your class loses points permanently.

In this article, we are going to look closely at every single student who has been expelled in the anime and light novel so far. Let’s dive in!

Summary of Student Expulsions

Here is a quick reference table comparing all the major student expulsions that have taken place in the story so far:

Student Name	Class at Expulsion	Reason for Expulsion	Primary Mastermind
Haruki Yamauchi	Class 1-C	Received the most negative votes after trying to betray his classmates.	Kiyotaka Ayanokoji & Suzune Horikita
Yahiko Totsuka	Class 1-A	Voted out as collateral damage to mentally crush a rival faction leader.	Arisu Sakayanagi
Shiho Manabe	Class 1-D	Sacrificed as a scapegoat for previously leaking class secrets.	Kakeru Ryuen
Airi Sakura (Light Novel)	Class 2-B	Eliminated for having the lowest metrics to save the class from a massive penalty.	Ayanokoji
Takuya Yagami (Light Novel)	Class 2-A	Tricked by Ayanokoji.	Ayanokoji
Kamuro Masumi (Light Novel)	The grumpy guard dog	Lost a wild, high-stakes school game.	Kamuro Masumi
Maezono Miki (Light Novel)	A normal student	Failed the big final test of Year 2.	Maezono Miki
Sakayanagi Arisu (Light Novel)	The smart girl with the cane	Lost a giant drop out bet against Ryuen.	Sakayanagi Arisu

Haruki Yamauchi: The Traitor Who Got Caught

If you watched the anime, you probably remember Haruki Yamauchi as one of the "Three Idiots" of Class D. He was not very smart, he was not good at sports, and he spent most of his time slacking off or trying to peep on the girls. But being a bad student is not actually what got him expelled. What got him kicked out was being a traitor to his friends.

At the end of their first year, the school held a really cruel test called the Class Poll Exam. The rules were simple but terrible: every class was forced to vote to expel one of their own classmates. Someone had to go home, no matter what.

Arisu Sakayanagi, the super-smart and scary leader of Class A, decided to mess with Class D for her own entertainment. She went to Yamauchi and made him a fake promise. She told him that if he could convince his classmates to vote against Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, she would give Yamauchi enough "good" votes from her own class to save him. Yamauchi got greedy. He started whispering to everyone behind their backs, trying to get them to vote Ayanokoji out.

But you do not mess with Ayanokoji. Ayanokoji figured out the plan almost instantly. He worked with Suzune Horikita to expose Yamauchi's lies in front of the whole class. When Class D realized Yamauchi was willing to throw a quiet classmate under the bus just to save his own skin, they were totally disgusted. The whole class turned on Yamauchi, voting him out. He was expelled, leaving behind a harsh lesson: loyalty matters, and betrayal will cost you everything.

Yahiko Totsuka: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Next is Yahiko Totsuka. His story is actually really sad because he did not do anything wrong. He was just a normal guy caught in the middle of a huge fight between two very powerful people.

Yahiko was in Class A, which is the smartest and best class in the first year classes. Inside Class A, there were two groups fighting to be the boss. One group was led by Arisu Sakayanagi, and the other was led by a student named Kohei Katsuragi. Yahiko was Katsuragi's best friend and his most loyal helper.

During that same cruel Class Poll Exam where every class had to kick someone out, Sakayanagi saw a perfect chance to crush Katsuragi's spirit. She did not want to expel Katsuragi himself, because that would be too easy. Instead, she decided to expel his best friend, Yahiko. Sakayanagi easily convinced the rest of the class that Yahiko was completely average and did not bring any special skills to Class A.

By getting the class to vote out Yahiko, she proved to Katsuragi that she was the absolute boss and that he was too weak to even protect his closest friend. He was kicked out simply because he was friends with the guy who lost the power struggle.

Shiho Manabe: Punished for Her Past

The third student to get expelled in the first year was Shiho Manabe. Her expulsion was a long time coming, and it proves that your past mistakes will always catch up to you at this school.

Manabe was originally in Class C, a class ruled by the violent and tricky student Kakeru Ryuen. Earlier in the school year, during a special exam on a big cruise ship, Manabe and her friends cornered a girl named Kei Karuizawa and bullied her physically.

What Manabe did not know was that Ayanokoji was hiding in the shadows, recording the whole fight on his phone. Ayanokoji used that video to blackmail Manabe. He forced her to become his secret spy and leak important secrets about Ryuen's class.

Months later, during the Class Poll Exam, Ryuen's class had a massive problem. Ryuen had been a terrible, bossy bully to his own classmates, so almost everyone wanted to vote him out. But Ayanokoji stepped in and made a secret deal to buy enough good votes to save Ryuen from being kicked out.

Because Ryuen was saved at the last second, someone else had to take his place and be expelled. Ryuen and his classmates decided to punish Manabe because they figured out she was the one who had leaked their class secrets in the past. She became the perfect scapegoat. Manabe was voted out and sent packing, proving that Ayanokoji uses people like tools and throws them away the second he is done with them.

Airi Sakura: Unimagined Twist

Airi Sakura’s expulsion is one of the saddest moments in the series. During a special exam, the class had to agree to expel one student in order to gain 100 class points. Because they were running out of time, Ayanokoji made a cold, logical choice.

He pointed out that Sakura had the lowest grades and skills in the entire class. Even though Sakura was part of his friend group and had a crush on him, Ayanokoji convinced everyone that letting her go was the only way to save the rest of the class. In the end, a heartbroken Sakura agreed to be expelled to help her classmates.

Takuya Yagami: The Mastermind Broken by His Own Obsession

If anyone's expulsion proved that arrogance is the ultimate downfall, it was Takuya Yagami. He arrived at the school pretending to be a polite, harmless underclassman, but underneath that mask lay a terrifyingly dangerous student from the White Room, sent with one sole purpose: to expel Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.

Yagami believed he was the true masterpiece of the White Room, far superior to Ayanokoji. He spent months pulling strings from the shadows, orchestrating violent plots, manipulating the school's faculty, and causing chaos across multiple grade levels. He thought he was playing a grand game of chess where he was ten steps ahead of everyone else.

But Yagami's fatal flaw was his blinding obsession and monstrous ego. He didn't realize that Ayanokoji had seen through him from the very beginning. During a tense student council meeting, Ayanokoji didn't even need to face Yagami directly. Instead, Ayanokoji subtly manipulated the school authorities and the White Room's external enforcers to trap Yagami in a corner. When the trap sprung, Yagami completely lost his mind, throwing a violent, screaming tantrum as he realized he had been utterly outplayed without his target even lifting a finger. He was dragged off school grounds in disgrace, a tragic reminder that in the presence of the true masterpiece, an imitation will always crumble.

Masumi Kamuro: The Collateral Damage of a False Friend

The first major casualty of the high-stakes survival game in the third semester was Masumi Kamuro. Her expulsion was a brutal reminder that in this school, loyalty is cheap, and being a loyal follower doesn't guarantee your safety—especially when your leader is a genius who views everyone as a pawn.

Kamuro was the constant shadow of Class A’s brilliant leader, Arisu Sakayanagi. For over a year, she followed Sakayanagi’s orders, acting as her eyes, ears, and occasionally her hands. What bound Kamuro to Sakayanagi wasn’t genuine friendship, but a dark secret: Sakayanagi had caught Kamuro shoplifting early in the school year and used that leverage to force her into submission.

Months later, during the brutal Survival Elimination Exam, Class A found itself in a corner. Sakayanagi was locked in a fierce, tactical battle against Class C’s Ryuen, and the exam rules dictated that someone had to be expelled from the losing side. In a shocking twist, Sakayanagi deliberately manipulated the votes to ensure Kamuro was the one sent packing. Sakayanagi claimed it was because Kamuro's past shoplifting made her a potential liability, but the truth was much colder: Sakayanagi used her "friend" as a human shield to protect her own position and ensure the class's survival. Kamuro walked out the gates, proving that no matter how close you think you are to the top, you are always replaceable.

Miki Maezono: The Backstabber Who Outsmarted Herself

Miki Maezono’s expulsion was a classic case of playing with fire and getting burned. Her downfall proved that if you are going to launch a coup against your class leader, you had better not miss.

Maezono belonged to Suzune Horikita’s Class B. For a long time, she was just a background student, but resentment and ambition began to brew under the surface. During a critical, high-stakes exam where the class had to unanimously decide on an expulsion, Maezono decided she was tired of Horikita’s rigid leadership. She secretly teamed up with a faction of classmates to orchestrate a rebellion, plotting to overthrow Horikita and protect her own inner circle.

What Maezono vastly underestimated was Horikita’s growth and the terrifyingly sharp intuition of Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. Before Maezono could execute her betrayal, her plot was exposed to the light. Horikita, realizing that a fractured class could never reach Class A, turned the tables. Maezono went from the mastermind of a rebellion to the prime target for elimination. She was voted out by the very classmates she tried to manipulate, proving that blind ambition without the intellect to back it up is a one-way ticket out of the school.

Arisu Sakayanagi: The Queen Bored of Her Own Throne

The expulsion of Arisu Sakayanagi shook the Advanced Nurturing High School to its core. The crippled queen of Class A, who had ruled her kingdom with an iron fist and unmatched intellect, finally met a challenge she couldn't—or rather, chose not to—survive.

The climax came during a brutal, head-to-head showdown exam between Sakayanagi and her fierce rival, Kakeru Ryuen. The stakes were absolute: the leader of the losing class would face immediate expulsion. Sakayanagi had the perfect strategy to crush Ryuen, but the match was entirely disrupted by a secret intervention from Kiyotaka Ayanokoji—the only person Sakayanagi truly respected and longed to defeat.

Ayanokoji manipulated the exam's hidden mechanics behind the scenes, effectively deciding the outcome of the battle himself. When Sakayanagi realized that her flawless victory was actually handed to her because of Ayanokoji’s interference, her pride was shattered. Refusing to accept a rigged win and feeling a profound sense of emptiness, she intentionally chose to forfeit the final match. Her self-inflicted defeat resulted in her own expulsion. Sakayanagi left the school on her own terms, proving that to a true genius, a compromised victory is worse than a dignified defeat.