Pupil Premium
(asked on 16th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many pupils qualified for pupil premium in the academic years 2015–16 and 2016–17.
The number of pupils eligible for the pupil premium in state-funded primary and secondary, maintained special schools, special academies, pupil referral units, alternative provision academies and alternative provision is:
| Deprivation Pupil Premium | Service Child Pupil Premium | Post-LAC | Pupil Premium Plus for Looked After Children | Total |
2015 to 2016 | 1,920,357 | 68,896 | 30,774 | 55,380 | 2,075,406 |
2016 to 20171 | 1,913,326 | 73,415 | 36,854 | 55,3802 | 2,078,974 |
Notes: 1 - Provisional figures for 2016 to 2017 which will be finalised by end March 2017 covering new data for Looked After Children and for new and growing schools.
2 - Provisional LAC figures are pulled forward from 2015 to 2016.
3 - Full-time equivalent (FTE) number of pupils. Figures are rounded to 0 decimal places and so do not sum to the Total.
This information is published on the department’s website.