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<p>The department publishes statistics on schools funding at the national level, including
revenue funding to state-funded schools in England for pupils aged 5 to 16, in cash
and real terms. Statistics for the 2010/11 to 2023/24 financial years are available
at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics"
target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics</a>.</p><p>In
2016/17 national per pupil funding in cash terms was £5,590 and in 2023/24 this had
risen to £7,460 in cash terms. This represents a cumulative growth in per pupil funding
since 2016/17 of 9.9% in real terms, as measured by the GDP deflator.</p><p>The published
information has been designed to capture core funding for schools and be as consistent
and comparable as possible across these years, given that the funding system has changed
significantly during that time. It covers mainstream primary and secondary schools,
special schools, alternative provision, pupil referral units and non-maintained special
schools. Information about the methodology can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/school-funding-statistics-methodology"
target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/school-funding-statistics-methodology</a>.
The department does not have a breakdown of this time series at local authority level,
therefore equivalent figures are not available for Essex.</p><p>At local authority
level, the department instead publish per pupil units of funding for the schools block
of the dedicated schools grant (DSG) in cash terms. In 2016/17 for Essex, this was
£4,392. Following changes to the funding system in 2017/18, the primary and secondary
per pupil units of funding were provided separately and, in 2023/24 for Essex, these
were £4,720 and £6,116 respectively. These figures are for mainstream schools only
and do not include any additional grant funding outside of the DSG, such as the mainstream
schools additional grant and teachers’ pay additional grant. The national equivalent
to these local authority figures is £4,636 for 2016/17 and £4,954 and £6,422 for 2023/24
for primary and secondary schools respectively.</p>
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