The impact of the funding formula on individual schools and local authorities is revealed in documents published today by the Department for Education.
Under the proposed formula:
- 1.1m pupils (15 per cent of all pupils) attend schools that would gain 5 per cent or more, per pupil.
- 2.5m pupils (36 per cent) attend schools that would gain 2 per cent or more.
- 2.2m pupils (31 per cent) attend schools that would lose between 2-3 per cent.
- 2.3m pupils (33 per cent) attend schools with funding that would be within 2 per cent of their current level.
Illustrative figures have also been provided to show how schools and councils budgets in 2016-17 would have been affected if the national formula were applied.
School losers
The government has decided to cap the amount that schools can lose under the formula by 1.5 per cent for two years, or 3 per cent in total. There are 596 schools that would see the maximum loss, according to calculations based on this year’s budgets. They include 560 secondaries, 35 through schools and one primary, the illustrative figures show.
School winners
According to the DfE the 10 schools that would have gained the most this year under the formula are:
School
% change to budget under national funding formula
Brewers Hill Middle School, Bedfordshire
38.6
Ashton Middle School, Bedfordshire
25.7
Queen’s Park Academy, Bedford
12.8
John Donne C of E Lower School, Bedfordshire
10
The Vale Academy, Bedfordshire
9.6
Goat Lees Primary School, Kent
6.2
Streetfield Middle School, Bedfordshire
6.1
The Lancaster School, Leicester
4.2
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
4.2
Hamilton College, Leicester
3.8
Local authority losers:
Local authority
% change to budget under national funding formula
Newham
-1.2
Lambeth
-1.2
Haringey
-1.2
Hackney
-1.1
Lewisham
-1.1
Southwark
-1.1
Cheshire West and Chester
-1.1
Camden
-1.1
Kensington and Chelsea
-1.1
Slough
-1
Local authority winners:
Local authority
% change to budget under national funding formula
Barnsley
2.4
Derby
2.2
Telford and Wrekin
2.2
East Riding and Yorkshire
2.1
Suffolk
2
Somerset
2
York
2
Plymouth
2
Knowsley
1.9
Torbay
1.9
