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<p>Data on the proportion of maintained secondary schools who spent more than their
income over the last seven years is published in the ‘Statistical First Release LA
and school expenditure: 2015 to 2016 Financial Year’. The specific data can be found
in Table 5 of the spreadsheet which is attached.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015-16 the total
revenue balance across all local authority maintained schools was £2.1 billion. This
amounts to an average revenue balance in each local authority maintained school of
£124,000, which equates to 7.5% on their total revenue income. Between 2010-11 and
2015-16 average revenue balance in all local authority schools rose by £33,647, a
rise of 37%.</p>
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