The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.

The grant also provides support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. Pupil premium can be used to support other pupils with identified needs, or used for whole class interventions that will benefit all pupils. 

Proposed Spending for the Academic Year 2024-2025

In 2024-2025 the funding for pupil premium is £265,850. The intended outcomes of this funding is to continue to improve our students' reading comprehension, attendance and attainment and to continue to remove barriers to learning for our disadvantaged students.