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Darlington: school funding per pupil
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£97m for Darlington in 2026-27, £854 per resident, +0.8% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £6,638 of schools block funding per pupil in 2026-27, against £6,771 for England. 2026-27 is the provisional allocation, which DfE updates for the latest pupil numbers.
Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Key figures
- £97m2026-27, cash +2.9% on a year earlier
- £854Per resident, 2026-27
- £6,638Schools block funding per pupil, 2026-27 England: £6,771
- £6,508Schools block funding per pupil, real terms, 2026-27 England: £6,638
- £6,916Mainstream school funding per pupil, 2025-26 England: £6,996
Source: Department for Education.
Over time: cash, real terms and per resident
Real terms use HM Treasury’s GDP deflator, 2025-26 prices.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Cash |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £84.2m | £65.8m |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £87.9m | £72.3m |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £90.8m | £74.9m |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £89.4m | £78.9m |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £90.1m | £83.7m |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £93.3m | £90.2m |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £94.1m | £94.1m |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £94.9m | £96.8m |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population estimates.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Per resident, 2025-26 prices | Per resident, cash |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £790 | £618 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £823 | £677 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £839 | £692 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £817 | £721 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £813 | £756 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £832 | £804 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £830 | £830 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £837 | £854 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Source: Department for Education, National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: summary tables, 2020-21 to 2026-27, published 19 November 2025.
Where it sits, and what is below it
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Darlington
The schools block of the dedicated schools grant for pupils aged 5 to 16 in mainstream schools, with the grants later rolled into it. 2026-27 is the provisional allocation. High needs (special educational needs), early years and central services are separate blocks and are not included.
£97m in 2026-27 (cash); £95m in 2025-26 prices; £854 per resident; +2.9% on a year earlier in cash, +0.8% in real terms.
Spending category: not published. Each mainstream school’s 2025-26 allocation is in the table of schools on this authority’s page (DfE school-level funding). What each school then spends is published separately (consistent financial reporting for maintained schools, academy accounts returns for academies) and is not read here.
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 | Darlington | England | Period |
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Schools block funding per pupilDetails for Schools block funding per pupil | £6,638 | £6,771 | 2026-27 |
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Schools block funding per pupil, real termsDetails for Schools block funding per pupil, real terms | £6,508 | £6,638 | 2026-27 |
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Mainstream school funding per pupilDetails for Mainstream school funding per pupil | £6,916 | £6,996 | 2025-26 |
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Pupils per teacherDetails for Pupils per teacher | 18.3 pupils per teacher | 17.9 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
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Pupils in academiesDetails for Pupils in academies | 96.0% | 62.8% | 2025-26 |
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Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 peopleDetails for Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 people | 1,259 per 100,000 | 959 per 100,000 | 2024/25 |
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The local authority’s schools block of the dedicated schools grant, with the grants later rolled into it, divided by its schools block pupils (aged 5 to 16, in state-funded mainstream schools). Cash. Upper-tier authorities (counties, unitaries, metropolitan districts, London boroughs), England only. The latest year is the provisional allocation. Breaks in the series: 2020-21: From 2020-21 the teachers’ pay and pension grants are rolled in; each later year includes the grants rolled in the year after.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Darlington | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £4,415 | £4,645 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £4,841 | £5,063 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £5,046 | £5,221 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £5,360 | £5,534 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £5,672 | £5,839 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,128 | £6,298 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,449 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,638 | £6,771 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
The same, in the dataset’s price base using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Darlington | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £5,648 | £5,941 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £5,885 | £6,154 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £6,120 | £6,332 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £6,073 | £6,270 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £6,106 | £6,286 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,339 | £6,515 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,449 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,508 | £6,638 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Full-time equivalent pupils per full-time equivalent teacher (qualified and unqualified) in state-funded schools, November each year (the school workforce census), England. The period is the academic year that starts that autumn.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Darlington | England |
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2010/11Details for 2010/11 | 18.5 | 17.1 |
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2011/12Details for 2011/12 | 18.5 | 17.2 |
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2012/13Details for 2012/13 | 18.0 | 17.2 |
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2013/14Details for 2013/14 | 17.7 | 17.1 |
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2014/15Details for 2014/15 | 17.4 | 17.1 |
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2015/16Details for 2015/16 | 17.4 | 17.3 |
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2016/17Details for 2016/17 | 17.3 | 17.5 |
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2017/18Details for 2017/18 | 17.6 | 17.9 |
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2018/19Details for 2018/19 | 17.8 | 18.0 |
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2019/20Details for 2019/20 | 17.7 | 18.2 |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 17.6 | 18.0 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 18.3 | 18.0 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 18.4 | 18.0 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 18.2 | 18.1 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 18.2 | 18.0 |
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2025/26Details for 2025/26 | 18.3 | 17.9 |
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Figure as of 4 June 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Apprenticeship starts by people living in the authority per 100,000 population, as DfE publishes it (on its own population estimate), England, academic year (August to July). Full years only.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Darlington | England |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 1,123 | 906 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 1,373 | 980 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 1,359 | 938 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 1,205 | 932 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 1,259 | 959 |
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Figure as of 16 July 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Every mainstream school: its allocation for 2025-26
37 mainstream schools with 14,586 pupils were allocated £101m in 2025-26, £6,916 per pupil (England: £6,996). 96.0% of the pupils are in academies, which are funded directly by DfE on the same formula. Allocations differ mainly with pupils’ deprivation and prior attainment, school size and local costs; special schools and high-needs top-ups are not in this table.
| School | Phase | Pupils | Per pupil | Total | URN | Academy |
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Abbey Infants' SchoolDetails for Abbey Infants' School | Primary | 262 | £5,475 | £1,434,570 | 136988 | Yes |
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Abbey Junior SchoolDetails for Abbey Junior School | Primary | 351 | £5,280 | £1,853,265 | 136989 | Yes |
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Bishopton Redmarshall CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Bishopton Redmarshall CofE Primary School | Primary | 67 | £8,426 | £564,547 | 137021 | Yes |
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Carmel CollegeDetails for Carmel College | Secondary | 1,077 | £7,186 | £7,738,955 | 137622 | Yes |
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Corporation Road Community Primary SchoolDetails for Corporation Road Community Primary School | Primary | 261 | £7,133 | £1,861,760 | 143512 | Yes |
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Firthmoor Primary SchoolDetails for Firthmoor Primary School | Primary | 266 | £7,206 | £1,916,694 | 138129 | Yes |
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Gurney Pease AcademyDetails for Gurney Pease Academy | Primary | 173 | £7,833 | £1,355,144 | 138362 | Yes |
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Harrowgate Hill Primary SchoolDetails for Harrowgate Hill Primary School | Primary | 412 | £6,504 | £2,679,735 | 135088 | No |
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Haughton AcademyDetails for Haughton Academy | Secondary | 908 | £8,611 | £7,819,150 | 138089 | Yes |
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Heathfield Primary SchoolDetails for Heathfield Primary School | Primary | 389 | £6,159 | £2,396,043 | 138179 | Yes |
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Heighington Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Heighington Church of England Primary School | Primary | 219 | £5,467 | £1,197,372 | 137022 | Yes |
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High Coniscliffe CofE Primary SchoolDetails for High Coniscliffe CofE Primary School | Primary | 94 | £7,291 | £685,341 | 142961 | Yes |
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Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Holy Family Catholic Primary School | Primary | 205 | £5,775 | £1,183,913 | 139533 | Yes |
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Hummersknott AcademyDetails for Hummersknott Academy | Secondary | 1,244 | £7,188 | £8,942,228 | 136838 | Yes |
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Hurworth Primary SchoolDetails for Hurworth Primary School | Primary | 218 | £5,427 | £1,183,037 | 138180 | Yes |
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Hurworth SchoolDetails for Hurworth School | Secondary | 652 | £7,368 | £4,803,815 | 136525 | Yes |
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Longfield AcademyDetails for Longfield Academy | Secondary | 723 | £8,158 | £5,898,153 | 145577 | Yes |
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Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolDetails for Mount Pleasant Primary School | Primary | 231 | £7,608 | £1,757,417 | 143449 | Yes |
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Mowden Infant SchoolDetails for Mowden Infant School | Primary | 174 | £5,741 | £998,986 | 138175 | Yes |
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Mowden Junior SchoolDetails for Mowden Junior School | Primary | 318 | £5,365 | £1,705,938 | 138176 | Yes |
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Northwood Primary SchoolDetails for Northwood Primary School | Primary | 390 | £6,834 | £2,665,407 | 142462 | Yes |
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Polam Hall SchoolDetails for Polam Hall School | All-through | 835 | £7,012 | £5,855,221 | 142174 | Yes |
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Red Hall Primary SchoolDetails for Red Hall Primary School | Primary | 175 | £8,200 | £1,435,015 | 114183 | No |
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Reid Street Primary SchoolDetails for Reid Street Primary School | Primary | 384 | £6,419 | £2,464,705 | 136836 | Yes |
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Skerne Park AcademyDetails for Skerne Park Academy | Primary | 261 | £7,340 | £1,915,828 | 139195 | Yes |
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Springfield AcademyDetails for Springfield Academy | Primary | 207 | £7,017 | £1,452,540 | 138088 | Yes |
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St Aidan's Church of England AcademyDetails for St Aidan's Church of England Academy | Secondary | 594 | £8,533 | £5,068,862 | 135314 | Yes |
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St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 212 | £5,481 | £1,161,935 | 139531 | Yes |
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St Bede's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Bede's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 293 | £5,618 | £1,646,181 | 138523 | Yes |
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St John's Church of England AcademyDetails for St John's Church of England Academy | Primary | 204 | £6,975 | £1,422,804 | 138128 | Yes |
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St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary School | Primary | 202 | £6,732 | £1,359,920 | 142962 | Yes |
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St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 309 | £5,853 | £1,808,606 | 146256 | Yes |
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St. George's Church of England AcademyDetails for St. George's Church of England Academy | Primary | 368 | £5,525 | £2,033,043 | 138000 | Yes |
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The Rydal AcademyDetails for The Rydal Academy | Primary | 549 | £6,802 | £3,734,438 | 138989 | Yes |
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West Park AcademyDetails for West Park Academy | Primary | 410 | £5,461 | £2,238,863 | 137042 | Yes |
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Whinfield Primary SchoolDetails for Whinfield Primary School | Primary | 452 | £5,478 | £2,476,234 | 150006 | Yes |
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Wyvern AcademyDetails for Wyvern Academy | Secondary | 497 | £8,377 | £4,163,441 | 143845 | Yes |
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Total is the school’s core schools block allocation plus pupil premium, the universal infant free school meals and PE and sport grants, and the teachers’ pay, National Insurance and schools budget support grants, as DfE lists them. Per pupil divides it by the school’s pupils. Each school’s record on the Get Information about Schools register is found by its URN.
Source: Department for Education, School funding statistics, Financial year 2025-26: national time series and school-level allocations, published 29 January 2026.
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 → England → Department for Education: total departmental expenditure limit → State-funded schools in England: core funding for pupils aged 5 to 16 → Darlington. Figures from data/services/education.json, generated 29 September 2026.
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| Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence |
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| National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: summary tables, 2020-21 to 2026-27 | Department for Education | 19 November 2025 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| School funding statistics, Financial year 2025-26: national time series and school-level allocations | Department for Education | 29 January 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| School workforce in England, Reporting year 2025: size of the workforce and pupil to teacher ratios | Department for Education | 4 June 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Apprenticeships, Academic year 2025/26 | Department for Education | 16 July 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
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