School funding for pupils aged 5 to 16, England
Official statistics
Revenue funding for schools in England for pupils aged 5 to 16 each financial year since 2010-11, in cash and at the latest year's prices, with the funding per pupil, from the Department for Education's school funding statistics.
Revenue funding for pupils aged 5 to 16
£64.9bn
2025/26 · £8,400 a pupil
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:19 UTC- Cash terms
- At 2025-26 prices
Source: Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
16 periods, newest first
| Period | Cash terms | At 2025-26 prices |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | £64.9bn | £64.9bn |
| 2024/25 | £61.5bn | £63.3bn |
| 2023/24 | £57.5bn | £61.6bn |
| 2022/23 | £53.2bn | £60.0bn |
| 2021/22 | £49.4bn | £59.6bn |
| 2020/21 | £47.4bn | £57.3bn |
| 2019/20 | £44.4bn | £56.5bn |
| 2018/19 | £42.4bn | £55.4bn |
| 2017/18 | £41.0bn | £54.8bn |
| 2016/17 | £40.3bn | £54.6bn |
| 2015/16 | £39.7bn | £54.8bn |
| 2014/15 | £38.7bn | £53.8bn |
| 2013/14 | £37.9bn | £53.4bn |
| 2012/13 | £36.8bn | £53.0bn |
| 2011/12 | £36.0bn | £52.7bn |
| 2010/11 | £35.1bn | £52.5bn |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Education
- Check it yourself
- https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:08 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/data-set-files?publicationId=39dce2e3-4976-41ac-cb95-08d8bdf1a994&latestOnly=true&pageSize=40SHA-256 14fec8d43b9235aedb49d57b7273fb1c6b0723e4199d1a85c3ec011192b20f05 · 4,028 bytes
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/411975aa-f198-46f7-a860-e9e896a4b710/files?fileIds=98727783-c2df-4a67-ee43-08de529ad5d9SHA-256 9bdb5e76a589e64fd8f39a6019e4b2904e2b0272aec56e0990baad16d2d69ddc · 2,403 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:19 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:19 UTC; 32 of 32 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Education; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:08:58Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 32 of 32 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's per_pupil and pupils match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 32 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 32 of 32 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's per_pupil and pupils match |
| Pass | The release is current | the financial year 2025/26 ended 222 days before retrieval (limit 500) |
| Pass | The release's headlines agree with Table 1 | 5 of 5 cases of the sums of money the release's headlines state (https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics/2025-26) equal Table 1's within half the last place each is written to and half Table 1's |
| Pass | Funding per pupil is the funding over the pupils | 16 of 16 cases of the years' funding per pupil is the funding over its pupils, within £5 and the £50 million the funding's rounding moves it |
| Pass | Real terms are cash over the deflator | 16 of 16 cases of the years' funding at the latest year's prices is the cash funding over the GDP deflator, within £50 million and the £50 million the cash's rounding moves it |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Revenue funding for pupils aged 5 to 16 in state-funded schools, as the DfE's Table 1 gives it, rounded to the nearest £100 million, and per pupil to the nearest £10; real terms are at the latest year's prices, by the GDP deflator. It is not the core schools budget, which includes funding for other ages and which the DfE quotes beside it.
- The DfE's figure for the coming year is its plan, so the hub leaves out every year that had not begun when the release was published.