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St Helens: school funding per pupil
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£163m for St Helens in 2026-27, £858 per resident, +0.8% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £6,700 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
- £163m2026-27, cash +2.8% on a year earlier
- £858Per resident, 2026-27
- £6,700Schools block funding per pupil, 2026-27 England: £6,771
- £6,568Schools block funding per pupil, real terms, 2026-27 England: £6,638
- £6,941Mainstream 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 | £137.5m | £107.5m |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £144.2m | £118.6m |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £150.6m | £124.2m |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £151.6m | £133.8m |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £152.6m | £141.8m |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £158.8m | £153.5m |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £158.6m | £158.6m |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £159.8m | £163.0m |
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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 | £757 | £592 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £792 | £651 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £821 | £677 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £820 | £724 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £818 | £760 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £843 | £815 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £835 | £835 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £842 | £858 |
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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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St Helens
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.
£163m in 2026-27 (cash); £160m in 2025-26 prices; £858 per resident; +2.8% 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 | St Helens | England | Period |
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Schools block funding per pupilDetails for Schools block funding per pupil | £6,700 | £6,771 | 2026-27 |
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Schools block funding per pupil, real termsDetails for Schools block funding per pupil, real terms | £6,568 | £6,638 | 2026-27 |
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Mainstream school funding per pupilDetails for Mainstream school funding per pupil | £6,941 | £6,996 | 2025-26 |
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Pupils per teacherDetails for Pupils per teacher | 17.8 pupils per teacher | 17.9 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
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Pupils in academiesDetails for Pupils in academies | 44.3% | 62.8% | 2025-26 |
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Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 peopleDetails for Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 people | 1,181 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 | St Helens | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £4,472 | £4,645 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £4,905 | £5,063 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £5,087 | £5,221 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £5,408 | £5,534 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £5,733 | £5,839 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,202 | £6,298 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,519 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,700 | £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 | St Helens | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £5,720 | £5,941 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £5,963 | £6,154 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £6,170 | £6,332 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £6,128 | £6,270 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £6,171 | £6,286 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,415 | £6,515 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,519 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,568 | £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 | St Helens | England |
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2010/11Details for 2010/11 | 18.0 | 17.1 |
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2011/12Details for 2011/12 | 17.9 | 17.2 |
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2012/13Details for 2012/13 | 17.5 | 17.2 |
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2013/14Details for 2013/14 | 17.4 | 17.1 |
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2014/15Details for 2014/15 | 17.3 | 17.1 |
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2015/16Details for 2015/16 | 17.6 | 17.3 |
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2016/17Details for 2016/17 | 18.1 | 17.5 |
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2017/18Details for 2017/18 | 18.7 | 17.9 |
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2018/19Details for 2018/19 | 18.5 | 18.0 |
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2019/20Details for 2019/20 | 18.9 | 18.2 |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 19.0 | 18.0 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 18.6 | 18.0 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 18.5 | 18.0 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 18.0 | 18.1 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 17.9 | 18.0 |
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2025/26Details for 2025/26 | 17.8 | 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 | St Helens | England |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 1,161 | 906 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 1,227 | 980 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 1,200 | 938 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 1,261 | 932 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 1,181 | 959 |
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Figure as of 16 July 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Every mainstream school: its allocation for 2025-26
63 mainstream schools with 24,336 pupils were allocated £169m in 2025-26, £6,941 per pupil (England: £6,996). 44.3% 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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Allanson Street Primary SchoolDetails for Allanson Street Primary School | Primary | 411 | £7,122 | £2,926,972 | 104758 | No |
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Ashurst Primary SchoolDetails for Ashurst Primary School | Primary | 197 | £6,610 | £1,302,154 | 104771 | No |
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Billinge Chapel End Primary SchoolDetails for Billinge Chapel End Primary School | Primary | 167 | £6,006 | £1,002,990 | 150556 | Yes |
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Bleak Hill Primary SchoolDetails for Bleak Hill Primary School | Primary | 579 | £5,475 | £3,170,266 | 104773 | No |
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Broad Oak Community Primary SchoolDetails for Broad Oak Community Primary School | Primary | 564 | £7,438 | £4,194,797 | 130259 | No |
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Carr Mill Primary SchoolDetails for Carr Mill Primary School | Primary | 284 | £6,834 | £1,940,942 | 134661 | No |
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Corpus Christi Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School | Primary | 125 | £6,365 | £795,633 | 104814 | No |
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Cowley International CollegeDetails for Cowley International College | Secondary | 1,255 | £8,395 | £10,536,179 | 104829 | No |
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De La Salle SchoolDetails for De La Salle School | Secondary | 1,192 | £7,422 | £8,847,588 | 150833 | Yes |
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Eaves Primary SchoolDetails for Eaves Primary School | Primary | 209 | £6,345 | £1,326,150 | 104770 | No |
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Eccleston Lane Ends Primary SchoolDetails for Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School | Primary | 243 | £5,454 | £1,325,416 | 104788 | No |
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Eccleston Mere Primary SchoolDetails for Eccleston Mere Primary School | Primary | 358 | £5,642 | £2,019,932 | 104783 | No |
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Garswood Primary and Nursery SchoolDetails for Garswood Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 213 | £5,631 | £1,199,375 | 104778 | No |
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Grange Valley Primary SchoolDetails for Grange Valley Primary School | Primary | 204 | £6,041 | £1,232,412 | 104774 | No |
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Haydock English Martyrs' Primary SchoolDetails for Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School | Primary | 243 | £6,069 | £1,474,732 | 104818 | No |
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Holy Cross Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Holy Cross Catholic Primary School | Primary | 180 | £7,054 | £1,269,709 | 104804 | No |
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Holy Spirit Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School | Primary | 192 | £6,747 | £1,295,368 | 132188 | No |
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Hope AcademyDetails for Hope Academy | Secondary | 1,295 | £7,676 | £9,941,032 | 136421 | Yes |
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Legh Vale Primary SchoolDetails for Legh Vale Primary School | Primary | 432 | £6,047 | £2,612,322 | 104782 | No |
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Longton Lane Community Primary SchoolDetails for Longton Lane Community Primary School | Primary | 261 | £5,860 | £1,529,514 | 104777 | No |
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Lyme Community Primary SchoolDetails for Lyme Community Primary School | Primary | 189 | £6,922 | £1,308,315 | 104776 | No |
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Merton Bank Primary SchoolDetails for Merton Bank Primary School | Primary | 193 | £7,859 | £1,516,815 | 104784 | No |
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Newton-le-Willows Primary SchoolDetails for Newton-le-Willows Primary School | Primary | 571 | £5,820 | £3,323,001 | 104775 | No |
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Nutgrove Methodist Primary SchoolDetails for Nutgrove Methodist Primary School | Primary | 206 | £5,938 | £1,223,192 | 146120 | Yes |
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Oakdene Primary SchoolDetails for Oakdene Primary School | Primary | 208 | £5,571 | £1,158,702 | 104781 | No |
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Outwood Academy HaydockDetails for Outwood Academy Haydock | Secondary | 832 | £8,147 | £6,778,574 | 148522 | Yes |
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Parish Church of England Primary School, St HelensDetails for Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens | Primary | 199 | £6,730 | £1,339,306 | 145458 | Yes |
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Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary SchoolDetails for Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School | Primary | 395 | £6,570 | £2,594,955 | 130382 | No |
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Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary SchoolDetails for Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School | Primary | 194 | £5,514 | £1,069,653 | 149929 | Yes |
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Rainford CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Rainford CofE Primary School | Primary | 204 | £5,635 | £1,149,547 | 148365 | Yes |
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Rainford High SchoolDetails for Rainford High School | Secondary | 1,461 | £7,097 | £10,368,854 | 144327 | Yes |
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Rainhill High SchoolDetails for Rainhill High School | Secondary | 1,481 | £7,133 | £10,564,500 | 144326 | Yes |
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Rectory CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Rectory CofE Primary School | Primary | 124 | £7,453 | £924,164 | 104797 | No |
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Rivington Primary SchoolDetails for Rivington Primary School | Primary | 208 | £6,561 | £1,364,754 | 104761 | No |
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Robins Lane Community Primary SchoolDetails for Robins Lane Community Primary School | Primary | 203 | £6,874 | £1,395,393 | 104762 | No |
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Sherdley Primary SchoolDetails for Sherdley Primary School | Primary | 395 | £5,990 | £2,366,032 | 104769 | No |
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St Aidan's CofE Primary School BillingeDetails for St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge | Primary | 169 | £5,996 | £1,013,354 | 104798 | No |
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St Ann's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Ann's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 411 | £5,383 | £2,212,439 | 142154 | Yes |
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St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Anne's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 233 | £6,606 | £1,539,213 | 104805 | No |
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St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic AcademyDetails for St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy | Secondary | 557 | £8,742 | £4,869,401 | 149031 | Yes |
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St Austin's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Austin's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 200 | £6,498 | £1,299,594 | 104806 | No |
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St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 283 | £5,416 | £1,532,830 | 104815 | No |
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St Cuthbert's Catholic High SchoolDetails for St Cuthbert's Catholic High School | Secondary | 882 | £8,562 | £7,551,341 | 104835 | No |
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St James' Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St James' Church of England Primary School | Primary | 161 | £6,985 | £1,124,569 | 146429 | Yes |
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St John Vianney Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St John Vianney Catholic Primary School | Primary | 199 | £6,185 | £1,230,898 | 104812 | No |
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St Julie's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Julie's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 220 | £5,371 | £1,181,602 | 104819 | No |
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St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School | Primary | 209 | £7,033 | £1,469,793 | 142161 | Yes |
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St Mary's Catholic Infant AcademyDetails for St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy | Primary | 149 | £6,073 | £904,885 | 150505 | Yes |
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St Mary's Catholic Junior AcademyDetails for St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy | Primary | 223 | £5,741 | £1,280,197 | 150302 | Yes |
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St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 186 | £5,442 | £1,012,139 | 104813 | No |
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St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School | Primary | 203 | £5,941 | £1,206,082 | 104810 | No |
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St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | 229 | £5,459 | £1,250,026 | 104801 | No |
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St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon StreetDetails for St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street | Primary | 164 | £7,011 | £1,149,861 | 104807 | No |
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St Theresa's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Theresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 191 | £7,106 | £1,357,264 | 104823 | No |
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St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | Primary | 211 | £5,568 | £1,174,812 | 104809 | No |
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St. Mary's Catholic Primary BlackbrookDetails for St. Mary's Catholic Primary Blackbrook | Primary | 362 | £6,365 | £2,304,119 | 104802 | No |
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Sutton Manor Community Primary SchoolDetails for Sutton Manor Community Primary School | Primary | 189 | £7,163 | £1,353,838 | 104764 | No |
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Sutton Oak CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Sutton Oak CofE Primary School | Primary | 273 | £7,157 | £1,953,961 | 104791 | No |
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Thatto Heath Community Primary SchoolDetails for Thatto Heath Community Primary School | Primary | 561 | £6,840 | £3,837,229 | 104763 | No |
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The District CofE Primary SchoolDetails for The District CofE Primary School | Primary | 315 | £6,745 | £2,124,738 | 149654 | Yes |
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The Sutton AcademyDetails for The Sutton Academy | Secondary | 1,336 | £8,172 | £10,917,909 | 136141 | Yes |
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Wargrave CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Wargrave CofE Primary School | Primary | 370 | £6,389 | £2,363,975 | 104787 | No |
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Willow Tree Primary SchoolDetails for Willow Tree Primary School | Primary | 183 | £7,199 | £1,317,500 | 150877 | 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 → St Helens. 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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