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Lewisham: school funding per pupil
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£268m for Lewisham in 2026-27, £890 per resident, −0.1% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £7,969 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
- £268m2026-27, cash +1.9% on a year earlier
- £890Per resident, 2026-27
- £7,969Schools block funding per pupil, 2026-27 England: £6,771
- £7,812Schools block funding per pupil, real terms, 2026-27 England: £6,638
- £8,276Mainstream 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 | £270.4m | £211.4m |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £270.4m | £222.4m |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £274.3m | £226.2m |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £257.1m | £226.9m |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £256.0m | £237.8m |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £262.1m | £253.4m |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £262.7m | £262.7m |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £262.5m | £267.8m |
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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 | £884 | £691 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £889 | £731 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £914 | £754 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £857 | £756 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £849 | £789 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £867 | £838 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £873 | £873 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £872 | £890 |
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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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Lewisham
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.
£268m in 2026-27 (cash); £263m in 2025-26 prices; £890 per resident; +1.9% on a year earlier in cash, −0.1% 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 | Lewisham | England | Period |
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Schools block funding per pupilDetails for Schools block funding per pupil | £7,969 | £6,771 | 2026-27 |
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Schools block funding per pupil, real termsDetails for Schools block funding per pupil, real terms | £7,812 | £6,638 | 2026-27 |
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Mainstream school funding per pupilDetails for Mainstream school funding per pupil | £8,276 | £6,996 | 2025-26 |
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Pupils per teacherDetails for Pupils per teacher | 17.7 pupils per teacher | 17.9 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
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Pupils in academiesDetails for Pupils in academies | 33.1% | 62.8% | 2025-26 |
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Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 peopleDetails for Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 people | 712 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 | Lewisham | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £5,749 | £4,645 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £6,113 | £5,063 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £6,262 | £5,221 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £6,595 | £5,534 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £6,956 | £5,839 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £7,468 | £6,298 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £7,817 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £7,969 | £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 | Lewisham | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £7,354 | £5,941 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £7,432 | £6,154 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £7,595 | £6,332 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £7,473 | £6,270 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £7,488 | £6,286 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £7,725 | £6,515 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £7,817 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £7,812 | £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 | Lewisham | England |
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2010/11Details for 2010/11 | 18.7 | 17.1 |
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2011/12Details for 2011/12 | 19.4 | 17.2 |
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2012/13Details for 2012/13 | 19.9 | 17.2 |
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2013/14Details for 2013/14 | 18.5 | 17.1 |
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2014/15Details for 2014/15 | 17.6 | 17.1 |
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2015/16Details for 2015/16 | 17.3 | 17.3 |
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2016/17Details for 2016/17 | 17.1 | 17.5 |
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2017/18Details for 2017/18 | 17.3 | 17.9 |
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2018/19Details for 2018/19 | 17.3 | 18.0 |
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2019/20Details for 2019/20 | 17.5 | 18.2 |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 16.9 | 18.0 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 17.3 | 18.0 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 17.1 | 18.0 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 17.3 | 18.1 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 17.3 | 18.0 |
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2025/26Details for 2025/26 | 17.7 | 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 | Lewisham | England |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 665 | 906 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 657 | 980 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 643 | 938 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 666 | 932 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 712 | 959 |
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Figure as of 16 July 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Every mainstream school: its allocation for 2025-26
78 mainstream schools with 33,625 pupils were allocated £278m in 2025-26, £8,276 per pupil (England: £6,996). 33.1% 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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Adamsrill Primary SchoolDetails for Adamsrill Primary School | Primary | 386 | £7,392 | £2,853,157 | 100671 | No |
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Addey and Stanhope SchoolDetails for Addey and Stanhope School | Secondary | 601 | £10,432 | £6,269,786 | 100748 | No |
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All Saints' Church of England Primary School BlackheathDetails for All Saints' Church of England Primary School Blackheath | Primary | 188 | £6,938 | £1,304,413 | 100719 | No |
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Ashmead Primary SchoolDetails for Ashmead Primary School | Primary | 369 | £6,815 | £2,514,904 | 100716 | No |
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Athelney Primary SchoolDetails for Athelney Primary School | Primary | 350 | £7,967 | £2,788,441 | 100672 | No |
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Baring Primary SchoolDetails for Baring Primary School | Primary | 201 | £7,805 | £1,568,832 | 100673 | No |
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Beecroft Garden PrimaryDetails for Beecroft Garden Primary | Primary | 399 | £7,700 | £3,072,168 | 100674 | No |
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Bonus Pastor Catholic CollegeDetails for Bonus Pastor Catholic College | Secondary | 921 | £9,478 | £8,729,560 | 150605 | Yes |
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Brindishe Green SchoolDetails for Brindishe Green School | Primary | 591 | £7,093 | £4,191,884 | 100687 | No |
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Brindishe Lee SchoolDetails for Brindishe Lee School | Primary | 202 | £7,046 | £1,423,359 | 100717 | No |
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Brindishe Manor SchoolDetails for Brindishe Manor School | Primary | 403 | £6,589 | £2,655,366 | 100693 | No |
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Childeric Primary SchoolDetails for Childeric Primary School | Primary | 360 | £8,404 | £3,025,549 | 146221 | Yes |
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Conisborough CollegeDetails for Conisborough College | Secondary | 778 | £10,613 | £8,256,593 | 150691 | Yes |
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Cooper's Lane Primary SchoolDetails for Cooper's Lane Primary School | Primary | 616 | £6,798 | £4,187,414 | 100676 | No |
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Dalmain Primary SchoolDetails for Dalmain Primary School | Primary | 344 | £7,009 | £2,411,186 | 100677 | No |
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Deptford Green SchoolDetails for Deptford Green School | Secondary | 890 | £11,004 | £9,793,908 | 100740 | No |
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Deptford Park Primary SchoolDetails for Deptford Park Primary School | Primary | 235 | £8,468 | £1,990,055 | 100678 | No |
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Downderry Primary SchoolDetails for Downderry Primary School | Primary | 409 | £7,342 | £3,003,015 | 100679 | No |
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Edmund Waller Primary SchoolDetails for Edmund Waller Primary School | Primary | 401 | £6,744 | £2,704,492 | 100680 | No |
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Elfrida Primary SchoolDetails for Elfrida Primary School | Primary | 335 | £8,120 | £2,720,155 | 100681 | No |
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Eliot Bank Primary SchoolDetails for Eliot Bank Primary School | Primary | 380 | £6,692 | £2,543,072 | 100711 | No |
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Fairlawn Primary SchoolDetails for Fairlawn Primary School | Primary | 350 | £6,524 | £2,283,245 | 100710 | No |
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Forest Hill SchoolDetails for Forest Hill School | Secondary | 865 | £10,162 | £8,790,019 | 100745 | No |
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Forster Park Primary SchoolDetails for Forster Park Primary School | Primary | 303 | £8,282 | £2,509,304 | 100683 | No |
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Good Shepherd RC SchoolDetails for Good Shepherd RC School | Primary | 199 | £7,812 | £1,554,531 | 100722 | No |
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Gordonbrock Primary SchoolDetails for Gordonbrock Primary School | Primary | 610 | £6,556 | £3,998,907 | 100684 | No |
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Grinling Gibbons Primary SchoolDetails for Grinling Gibbons Primary School | Primary | 200 | £8,358 | £1,671,524 | 100685 | No |
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Haberdashers' Hatcham CollegeDetails for Haberdashers' Hatcham College | Secondary | 1,096 | £9,214 | £10,098,885 | 135073 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' Hatcham Free SchoolDetails for Haberdashers' Hatcham Free School | Primary | 416 | £6,180 | £2,570,871 | 139672 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' Hatcham PrimaryDetails for Haberdashers' Hatcham Primary | Primary | 392 | £7,475 | £2,930,090 | 147355 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' Knights AcademyDetails for Haberdashers' Knights Academy | Secondary | 989 | £10,100 | £9,989,078 | 135070 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' Knights PrimaryDetails for Haberdashers' Knights Primary | Primary | 167 | £8,669 | £1,447,775 | 147363 | Yes |
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Haseltine Primary SchoolDetails for Haseltine Primary School | Primary | 375 | £7,736 | £2,901,145 | 100686 | No |
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Holbeach Primary SchoolDetails for Holbeach Primary School | Primary | 392 | £7,664 | £3,004,280 | 100688 | No |
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Holy Cross Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Holy Cross Catholic Primary School | Primary | 206 | £7,438 | £1,532,258 | 100739 | No |
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Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Primary | 170 | £8,601 | £1,462,130 | 100723 | No |
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Horniman Primary SchoolDetails for Horniman Primary School | Primary | 201 | £6,880 | £1,382,970 | 100714 | No |
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John Ball Primary SchoolDetails for John Ball Primary School | Primary | 613 | £6,252 | £3,832,383 | 100709 | No |
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John Stainer Community Primary SchoolDetails for John Stainer Community Primary School | Primary | 393 | £6,928 | £2,722,694 | 100689 | No |
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Kelvin Grove Primary SchoolDetails for Kelvin Grove Primary School | Primary | 519 | £7,675 | £3,983,180 | 100690 | No |
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Kender Primary SchoolDetails for Kender Primary School | Primary | 321 | £8,215 | £2,636,907 | 100691 | No |
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Kilmorie Primary SchoolDetails for Kilmorie Primary School | Primary | 584 | £6,505 | £3,798,854 | 100718 | No |
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Launcelot Primary School and NurseryDetails for Launcelot Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 300 | £8,404 | £2,521,177 | 100692 | No |
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Marvels Lane Primary SchoolDetails for Marvels Lane Primary School | Primary | 374 | £7,806 | £2,919,335 | 100696 | No |
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Myatt Garden Primary SchoolDetails for Myatt Garden Primary School | Primary | 353 | £6,991 | £2,467,913 | 100713 | No |
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Oak Gardens Primary SchoolDetails for Oak Gardens Primary School | Primary | 172 | £8,980 | £1,544,499 | 100695 | No |
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Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School | Primary | 208 | £7,859 | £1,634,716 | 150552 | Yes |
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Perrymount Primary SchoolDetails for Perrymount Primary School | Primary | 187 | £8,339 | £1,559,328 | 100715 | No |
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Prendergast Ladywell SchoolDetails for Prendergast Ladywell School | All-through | 1,289 | £8,969 | £11,560,627 | 150318 | Yes |
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Prendergast SchoolDetails for Prendergast School | Secondary | 618 | £8,710 | £5,382,571 | 150319 | Yes |
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Prendergast Vale SchoolDetails for Prendergast Vale School | All-through | 772 | £9,850 | £7,603,988 | 150351 | Yes |
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Rangefield Primary SchoolDetails for Rangefield Primary School | Primary | 233 | £8,348 | £1,945,005 | 100699 | No |
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Rathfern Primary SchoolDetails for Rathfern Primary School | Primary | 466 | £7,111 | £3,313,566 | 100700 | No |
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Rushey Green Primary SchoolDetails for Rushey Green Primary School | Primary | 566 | £7,560 | £4,279,086 | 100701 | No |
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Sandhurst Primary SchoolDetails for Sandhurst Primary School | Primary | 594 | £6,736 | £4,001,414 | 100703 | No |
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Sedgehill AcademyDetails for Sedgehill Academy | Secondary | 766 | £11,440 | £8,762,861 | 148003 | Yes |
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St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and NurseryDetails for St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 192 | £7,825 | £1,502,411 | 100725 | No |
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St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 397 | £6,467 | £2,567,576 | 100726 | No |
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St George's CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St George's CofE Primary School | Primary | 185 | £8,478 | £1,568,374 | 145621 | Yes |
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St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary School | Primary | 159 | £8,465 | £1,345,861 | 151009 | Yes |
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St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary School | Primary | 184 | £7,672 | £1,411,661 | 100728 | No |
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St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 137 | £8,554 | £1,171,909 | 100729 | No |
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St Margaret's Lee CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Margaret's Lee CofE Primary School | Primary | 204 | £7,117 | £1,451,835 | 100724 | No |
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St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School | Primary | 203 | £8,486 | £1,722,703 | 100730 | No |
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St Matthew AcademyDetails for St Matthew Academy | All-through | 1,081 | £9,139 | £9,879,509 | 135264 | Yes |
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St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Michael's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 181 | £7,966 | £1,441,853 | 151010 | Yes |
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St Saviour's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Saviour's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 199 | £8,218 | £1,635,406 | 100733 | No |
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St Stephen's CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Stephen's CofE Primary School | Primary | 181 | £8,247 | £1,492,651 | 151011 | Yes |
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St William of York Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St William of York Catholic Primary School | Primary | 175 | £7,577 | £1,325,931 | 100737 | No |
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St Winifred's RC Primary SchoolDetails for St Winifred's RC Primary School | Primary | 364 | £6,785 | £2,469,921 | 142456 | No |
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Stillness Infant SchoolDetails for Stillness Infant School | Primary | 266 | £6,689 | £1,779,165 | 100705 | No |
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Stillness Junior SchoolDetails for Stillness Junior School | Primary | 277 | £6,453 | £1,787,551 | 100704 | No |
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Sydenham SchoolDetails for Sydenham School | Secondary | 1,177 | £9,064 | £10,667,801 | 100741 | No |
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Tidemill AcademyDetails for Tidemill Academy | Primary | 420 | £8,304 | £3,487,795 | 137441 | Yes |
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Torridon Primary SchoolDetails for Torridon Primary School | Primary | 600 | £7,230 | £4,337,883 | 100708 | No |
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Trinity Church of England School, LewishamDetails for Trinity Church of England School, Lewisham | All-through | 1,071 | £8,852 | £9,480,094 | 100749 | No |
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Turnham AcademyDetails for Turnham Academy | Primary | 156 | £8,792 | £1,371,506 | 146100 | Yes |
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Twin Oaks Primary SchoolDetails for Twin Oaks Primary School | Primary | 198 | £8,928 | £1,767,835 | 100712 | No |
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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 → Lewisham. Figures from data/services/education.json, generated 29 September 2026.
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| 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 |
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