Grants & Funding

Pupil Premium

You can read our Pupil Premium Statement by clicking on the link below.

Evidence shows that disadvantaged children in England generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential and often do not perform as well as other pupils at school. At both primary and secondary levels there is an attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers, which widened between 2019 and 2022.

The pupil premium (PP) grant is funding allocated to state funded schools in England to narrow this attainment gap and improve the educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.

PP grant funding is allocated for two separate objectives:

• Raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential.
• Providing support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces – the service pupil premium (SPP).

PP funding is not a personal budget for individual children. All spending should take account of the specific needs of eligible pupils, support eligible pupil cohorts and deliver the objectives outlined earlier. The grant can be spent:

• For the benefit of pupils registered at the school that receives it.
• For the benefit of pupils registered at other state funded schools or academies.
• On community services whose provision furthers the benefit of pupils at the school.

Schools may use a portion of PP grant funding to support pupils who do not meet any of the PP grant eligibility criteria where they deem it beneficial to do so, e.g. to support other pupils with identified needs, such as pupils who have or have had a social worker, or pupils who act as a carer. It can also be used for whole class approaches, for example high-quality teaching, which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils.