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<p>Between 2015-16 and 2019-20 the government has made a significant investment in
schools, with core schools funding growing by nearly £4 billion.</p><p>The table below
shows the average funding per secondary pupil we have allocated to local authorities
in England through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) for 2018-19
and 2019-20.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average
Schools block secondary unit of funding (SUF)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,228.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,294.78</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Before 2018-19, the Department did not distinguish between phases when allocating
funding to local authorities through the DSG. Each local authority will have set their
own funding rates for secondary pupils for each year in this period. The average funding
per pupil (schools block unit of funding) for the period between 2014-15 and 2017-18
is available in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average
Schools block unit of funding (SBUF)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,555.02</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,612.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,636.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,618.63</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The drop in schools block per pupil funding between 2016-17 and 2017-18 is
due to local authorities re-baselining funding between the DSG blocks, resulting in
funding moving from the schools block into the high needs block.</p><p> </p><p>In
addition to schools block funding, schools also receive funding from separate funding
streams and additional grants, such as the central schools services, and the high
needs blocks of the DSG, as well as the Pupil Premium.</p><p>Local authorities continue
to be responsible for distributing funding to schools in their local area, which they
will have determined through their own local formulae. As a result, the Department
does not hold any analysis of this data in order to provide the maximum and average
change per secondary pupil at school level as requested. The Department publishes
schools block allocations for individual maintained schools and academies online,
which can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations</a>.</p>
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