The pupil premium grant provides funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
The grant also provides support for children and young people of service families, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:
Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:
Funding criteria | Amount of funding for each primary-aged pupil per year | Amount of funding for each secondary-aged pupil per year | Funding is paid to |
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Pupils who are eligible for free school meals, or have been eligible in the past 6 years | £1,515 | £1,075 | School |
Pupils previously looked after by a local authority or other state care | £2,630 | £2,630 | School |
Children who are looked after by the local authority | £2,630 | £2,630 | Local authority |