Pupil Premium

What is Pupil Premium?

The government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant in April 2011. It is paid for pupils who:

• are currently, or have been, eligible for free school meals
• children who have been looked after as a result of adoption, a special guardianship order or a child arrangement order continuously for more than 6 months
• has a parent employed in military services

This funding is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England and is allocated directly to schools to raise the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers by removing barriers to learning. It is up to individual schools how the Pupil Premium is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility.

What information do schools have to publish?

Schools must publish their strategy for the school’s use of Pupil Premium on their website and, for the current year, must include:

• the school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
• a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
• how the school will spend the pupil premium to address those barriers and the reasons for that approach
• how the school measures the impact of pupil premium
• the date of the next review of the pupil premium strategy

For the previous academic year they must include:

• The impact on eligible and other pupils

Current Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-2027

Previous Impact - December 2024