Pupils: Per Capita Costs

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average spending per pupil was in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland in each year since 2009-10.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 12th September 2018

School-level figures for spending per pupil by local authority are published annually. The Department publishes information on income and expenditure in schools on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, available at:

https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

To download data for all schools click on the Data Sources link and then CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) and AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools).

Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Local Authority Maintained schools

Year (Financial)

(a) Middlesbrough

(b) Redcar and Cleveland

2009-10

*

*

2010-11

£4,656

£4,864

2011-12

£4,945

£4,940

2012-13

£4,916

£4,811

2013-14

£4,767

£4,918

2014-15

£5,125

£5,133

2015-16

£5,211

£5,351

2016-17

£5,050

£5,068

Source: CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) available at:

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=datatypes&regiontype=all&la=0&downloadYear=2016-2017&datatypes=spendperpupilfull.

Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Academy schools

Year (Academic)

(a) Middlesbrough

(b) Redcar and Cleveland

2009/10

*

*

2010/11

*

*

2011/12

£7,286

£7,631

2012/13

£7,164

£7,813

2013/14

£7,089

£7,279

2014/15

£6,646

£6,291

2015/16

£6,395

£5,848

2016/17

£5,464

£5,586

* : Data not available

Source: AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools) available at:

https://sat1prsfb.blob.core.windows.net/sfb/SFB_Academies_2016-17_download.xlsx.

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