# Caerphilly: school funding per pupil

url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/education/caerphilly/
updated: 29 September 2026
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# Caerphilly: school funding per pupil



Last updated 29 September 2026.
Figures refresh every night. [How each figure is worked out](/methodology/).





**£240m** for Caerphilly in 2024-25, **£1,361** per resident, +4.4% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £6,302 of delegated schools budget per pupil in 2026-27, against £6,525 for Wales.



Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source:
[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv).





## Key figures



- £240m2024-25, cash

+8.7% on a year earlier
As of 16 October 2025
- £1,361Per resident, 2024-25


As of 16 October 2025
- £6,302Schools budget per pupil (Wales), 2026-27

Wales: £6,525
As of 2 July 2026
- 20.3 pupils per teacherPupils per teacher (Wales), 2025/26

Wales: 19.5 pupils per teacher
As of 14 July 2026
- £5,334Primary schools budget per pupil (Wales), 2026-27

Wales: £5,678
As of 2 July 2026




Source: [Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv).






## Over time: cash, real terms and per resident




**Caerphilly: spending in cash and in 2025-26 prices, £ million**








Real terms use HM Treasury’s GDP deflator, 2025-26 prices.




**The numbers behind this chart**





| Year | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Cash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2022-23Details | £232.3m | £205.0m |
| Cash£205.0m | | |
| 2023-24Details | £237.7m | £220.8m |
| Cash£220.8m | | |
| 2024-25Details | £248.2m | £239.9m |
| Cash£239.9m | | |






Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source:
[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv).





**Caerphilly: spending per resident, 2025-26 prices**








Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population estimates.




**The numbers behind this chart**





| Year | Per resident, 2025-26 prices | Per resident, cash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2022-23Details | £1,320 | £1,165 |
| Per resident, cash£1,165 | | |
| 2023-24Details | £1,348 | £1,253 |
| Per resident, cash£1,253 | | |
| 2024-25Details | £1,408 | £1,361 |
| Per resident, cash£1,361 | | |






Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source:
[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv).




Source: Welsh Government, [Local authority revenue outturn expenditure and financing (StatsWales)](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv), published 16 October 2025.





## Where it sits, and what is below it



- UK total
- Nation
- Department or service body
- Local body
- Spending category
- Line or transaction not published





- United Kingdom
- Wales
- Welsh councils: education
- Caerphilly





### Caerphilly



Net revenue spending on education (schools and other education), before specific grants, from the council’s revenue outturn.



**£240m** in 2024-25 (cash); £248m in 2025-26 prices; £1,361 per resident; +8.7% on a year earlier in cash, +4.4% in real terms.





| Spending category | Cash, 2024-25 | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Per resident | Real change on a year earlier | Source | Below this |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SchoolsDetails | £232m | £240m | £1,317 | +2.9% | [Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv) | Line or transaction not published: Welsh councils’ revenue outturn splits education only into schools and other education; spending by school is in each council’s section 52 budget statement, not collected as data. |
| Real terms (2025-26 prices)£240mPer resident£1,317Real change on a year earlier+2.9%Source[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv)Below thisLine or transaction not published: Welsh councils’ revenue outturn splits education only into schools and other education; spending by school is in each council’s section 52 budget statement, not collected as data. | | | | | | |
| Other educationDetails | £8m | £8m | £44.26 | +87.6% | [Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv) | Line or transaction not published: Welsh councils’ revenue outturn splits education only into schools and other education; spending by school is in each council’s section 52 budget statement, not collected as data. |
| Real terms (2025-26 prices)£8mPer resident£44.26Real change on a year earlier+87.6%Source[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv)Below thisLine or transaction not published: Welsh councils’ revenue outturn splits education only into schools and other education; spending by school is in each council’s section 52 budget statement, not collected as data. | | | | | | |







Cash is as published. Real terms are in 2025-26 prices, using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator. Per resident divides by
ONS mid-year population for the area the body serves. Changes compare the same body in consecutive years.






## What is recorded alongside the money



These figures are published beside the funding, not as its result. Demand, geography, recording practice and
many other things differ between areas and change over time; none of these charts shows cause and effect.





| Measure | Caerphilly | Wales | Period |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Schools budget per pupil (Wales)Details | £6,302 | £6,525 | 2026-27 |
| Wales£6,525Period2026-27 | | | |
| Pupils per teacher (Wales)Details | 20.3 pupils per teacher | 19.5 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
| Wales19.5 pupils per teacherPeriod2025/26 | | | |






**Schools budget per pupil (Wales): Caerphilly and comparisons**








The individual schools budget the council delegates to its schools, per pupil, as budgeted for the financial year (Welsh Government, delegated school budgets). Cash. It excludes spending the council keeps centrally. Welsh councils only: not comparable with the English schools block.




**The numbers behind this chart**





| Year | Caerphilly | Wales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2002-03Details | £2,473 | £2,541 |
| Wales£2,541 | | |
| 2003-04Details | £2,695 | £2,795 |
| Wales£2,795 | | |
| 2004-05Details | £2,888 | £2,988 |
| Wales£2,988 | | |
| 2005-06Details | £3,076 | £3,186 |
| Wales£3,186 | | |
| 2006-07Details | £3,116 | £3,355 |
| Wales£3,355 | | |
| 2007-08Details | £3,230 | £3,508 |
| Wales£3,508 | | |
| 2008-09Details | £3,292 | £3,645 |
| Wales£3,645 | | |
| 2009-10Details | £3,378 | £3,760 |
| Wales£3,760 | | |
| 2010-11Details | £3,449 | £3,864 |
| Wales£3,864 | | |
| 2011-12Details | £3,445 | £3,910 |
| Wales£3,910 | | |
| 2012-13Details | £3,558 | £4,080 |
| Wales£4,080 | | |
| 2013-14Details | £3,634 | £4,169 |
| Wales£4,169 | | |
| 2014-15Details | £3,636 | £4,150 |
| Wales£4,150 | | |
| 2015-16Details | £3,627 | £4,128 |
| Wales£4,128 | | |
| 2016-17Details | £3,746 | £4,190 |
| Wales£4,190 | | |
| 2017-18Details | £3,782 | £4,234 |
| Wales£4,234 | | |
| 2018-19Details | £3,805 | £4,291 |
| Wales£4,291 | | |
| 2019-20Details | £3,995 | £4,441 |
| Wales£4,441 | | |
| 2020-21Details | £4,392 | £4,668 |
| Wales£4,668 | | |
| 2021-22Details | £4,463 | £4,800 |
| Wales£4,800 | | |
| 2022-23Details | £4,735 | £5,032 |
| Wales£5,032 | | |
| 2023-24Details | £5,168 | £5,386 |
| Wales£5,386 | | |
| 2024-25Details | £5,440 | £5,726 |
| Wales£5,726 | | |
| 2025-26Details | £6,032 | £6,164 |
| Wales£6,164 | | |
| 2026-27Details | £6,302 | £6,525 |
| Wales£6,525 | | |






Figure as of 2 July 2026. Source:
[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/cf7e1c71-9912-40ef-866e-8fdf3b308470/download/csv?view=raw_extended&filter=%5B%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22School%20-%20Sector%20-%20Authority%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Wales%22%2C%22Isle%20of%20Anglesey%22%2C%22Gwynedd%22%2C%22Conwy%22%2C%22Denbighshire%22%2C%22Flintshire%22%2C%22Wrexham%22%2C%22Powys%22%2C%22Ceredigion%22%2C%22Pembrokeshire%22%2C%22Carmarthenshire%22%2C%22Swansea%22%2C%22Neath%20Port%20Talbot%22%2C%22Bridgend%22%2C%22Vale%20of%20Glamorgan%22%2C%22Rhondda%20Cynon%20Taf%22%2C%22Merthyr%20Tydfil%22%2C%22Caerphilly%22%2C%22Blaenau%20Gwent%22%2C%22Torfaen%22%2C%22Monmouthshire%22%2C%22Newport%22%2C%22Cardiff%22%5D%7D%5D).





**Pupils per teacher (Wales): Caerphilly and comparisons**








Pupils in maintained schools divided by full-time equivalent teachers, worked out here from the two Welsh Government censuses (the Welsh Government does not publish the ratio by council). Wales only.




**The numbers behind this chart**





| Year | Caerphilly | Wales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2020/21Details | 20.7 | 19.8 |
| Wales19.8 | | |
| 2021/22Details | 19.8 | 19.1 |
| Wales19.1 | | |
| 2022/23Details | 20.1 | 19.1 |
| Wales19.1 | | |
| 2023/24Details | 20.1 | 19.4 |
| Wales19.4 | | |
| 2024/25Details | 20.1 | 19.7 |
| Wales19.7 | | |
| 2025/26Details | 20.3 | 19.5 |
| Wales19.5 | | |






Figure as of 14 July 2026. Source:
[Welsh Government](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/27bab2ef-fc68-4282-986e-33b5545a39ab/download/csv?view=raw_extended&filter=%5B%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Sector%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Sex%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Total%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Staff%20Category%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Total%20teachers%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Welsh%20Medium%20Type%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22School%20Language%20Category%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%5D).






## What these figures do and don't show



- **Different measures at each level.** The UK and nation totals are HM Treasury’s spending on education by function. Below them are each publisher’s own measures: DfE’s core schools budget, each authority’s schools block, councils’ net education spending. They are not expected to add up to the level above.
- **England is not the UK.** Education is devolved. The schools block, school allocations, the school workforce, apprenticeships and the student loan book shown here are England’s, and are never added to UK or other nations’ figures.
- **Per pupil is not comparable across nations.** England’s schools block, Wales’s figures and Scotland’s council spending per pupil measure different things, so each authority is compared only with its own nation.
- **Student loans are lending, not spending.** The money lent, repaid and still owed is shown beside the spending, not added to it. Only the part not expected to be repaid counts as spending, on the basis the Office for National Statistics introduced in 2018.
- **Nothing here shows cause and effect.** Pupils per teacher, apprenticeship starts and other figures are shown alongside the money, not as its result. Areas differ in deprivation, sparsity, pupils with special needs and costs, which is why funding per pupil differs.
- **Allocations are not spending.** School-level figures are what each school was allocated for the year, not what it spent; the latest schools block year is provisional.




Where this sits: United Kingdom → Wales → Welsh councils: education → Caerphilly. Figures from data/services/education.json, generated 29 September 2026.



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### Download



- [Caerphilly: the dataset (CSV)](/data/services/education.csv)
[JSON](/data/services/education.json)

- [All data, field definitions and licences](/data/)







## Sources for this page





| Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Local authority revenue outturn expenditure and financing (StatsWales)](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/b483d2c5-e60e-4dfb-b03a-49df9e1931a0/download/csv) | Welsh Government | 16 October 2025 | annual | [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) |
| [Delegated school budgets by individual school (individual schools budget per pupil, by local authority)](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/cf7e1c71-9912-40ef-866e-8fdf3b308470/download/csv?view=raw_extended&filter=%5B%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22School%20-%20Sector%20-%20Authority%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Wales%22%2C%22Isle%20of%20Anglesey%22%2C%22Gwynedd%22%2C%22Conwy%22%2C%22Denbighshire%22%2C%22Flintshire%22%2C%22Wrexham%22%2C%22Powys%22%2C%22Ceredigion%22%2C%22Pembrokeshire%22%2C%22Carmarthenshire%22%2C%22Swansea%22%2C%22Neath%20Port%20Talbot%22%2C%22Bridgend%22%2C%22Vale%20of%20Glamorgan%22%2C%22Rhondda%20Cynon%20Taf%22%2C%22Merthyr%20Tydfil%22%2C%22Caerphilly%22%2C%22Blaenau%20Gwent%22%2C%22Torfaen%22%2C%22Monmouthshire%22%2C%22Newport%22%2C%22Cardiff%22%5D%7D%5D) | Welsh Government | 2 July 2026 | annual | [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) |
| [Teachers by measure (full-person equivalent (FPE) and full-time equivalent (FTE)) and staff category](https://api.stats.gov.wales/v1/27bab2ef-fc68-4282-986e-33b5545a39ab/download/csv?view=raw_extended&filter=%5B%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Sector%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Sex%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Total%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Staff%20Category%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Total%20teachers%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22Welsh%20Medium%20Type%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22columnName%22%3A%22School%20Language%20Category%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22All%20schools%22%5D%7D%5D) | Welsh Government | 14 July 2026 | annual | [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) |





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