The average per student funding of secondary schools in rural, urban and inner-London settings is set out for the financial years 2004-05 and 2009-10 in the following table. Data are not available before 2004-05 as the urban/rural classification was only created in 2004. To produce urban/rural data for all years would be at disproportionate cost so a comparator of inner London and rest of England has been provided for intervening years.
Total budget share (plus grants) per pupil (£) Inner London Urban (excluding inner London) Rural Rest of England (i.e. excluding inner London) England 2004-05 4,580 3,440 3,250 3,410 3,460 2005-06 4,970 — — 3,700 3,760 2006-07 5,380 — — 4,040 4,100 2007-08 6,020 — — 4,380 4,440 2008-09 6,260 — — 4,560 4,630 2009-10 6,480 4,750 4,430 4,700 4,770 1 Budget share plus grants allocated to schools is the combination of the schools individual budget share plus any revenue grants allocated to the school at the start of the financial year. This does not include any capital funding allocated to schools. 2 The amount of money allocated to a school depends on the school funding policy of each local authority. There will be differences between authorities in the amounts of funding held centrally to spend on behalf of their schools. 3 The pupil numbers used to calculate the per pupil amounts are as reported by the local authority on their Section 52 Budget Statement (Table 2), comprising the full-time equivalent number of pupils registered at the school, used for the initial determination of the school’s budget share under the local authority’s allocation formula. 4 Included are all local authority maintained primary schools which are reported by their LA as being open for the entire final year (schools that are reported as either opening or closing during the financial year have been removed). 5 Figures are rounded to nearest £10.