Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium Grant was introduced by the Government to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged students in state-funded schools in England.

The grant also provides support for services children students whose parents are in the regular armed forces, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP).   

Funding criteria 

Pupil Premium funding is allocated to schools based on the number of: 

• Children who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM) 

• Children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales 

The Pupil Premium is not a personal budget for individual students. The Government state that it can be used for whole-class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged students, or to support other students with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer. 

The Pupil Premium is allocated to schools based on the number of students who are known to be eligible for free school meals at any point within the last six years and children who have been continuously looked after for more than six months. It is for schools to decide how the Pupil Premium is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provisions should be made for the individual students within their responsibility.

See below for the latest Pupil Premium, Catch-up and Sports Premium information.