Pupil Premium
What is it?
Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.
Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:
Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:
- generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school
- often do not perform as well as their peers
Reporting and accountability
For the current academic year, schools must publish:
- their school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
- a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
- how they’ll spend the pupil premium to overcome those barriers and the reasons for that approach
- how they’ll measure the effect of the pupil premium
- the date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy
- how they spent the pupil premium allocation
- the effect of the expenditure on eligible and other pupils
| Pupil Premium report 2018-19 |
| Pupil Premium strategy 2020-21 |
Due to the enforced closure of schools midway through the year, the government has asked schools to publish their pupil premium report for the 2019-20 academic year at the end of the 2020-21 financial year (April 2021).
