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Telford and Wrekin: school funding per pupil
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£186m for Telford and Wrekin in 2026-27, £935 per resident, 0.0% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £6,729 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
- £186m2026-27, cash +2.0% on a year earlier
- £935Per resident, 2026-27
- £6,729Schools block funding per pupil, 2026-27 England: £6,771
- £6,596Schools block funding per pupil, real terms, 2026-27 England: £6,638
- £6,955Mainstream 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 | £146.3m | £114.4m |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £156.1m | £128.4m |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £164.1m | £135.3m |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £165.2m | £145.8m |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £169.8m | £157.7m |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £178.8m | £172.8m |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £182.7m | £182.7m |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £182.7m | £186.4m |
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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 | £804 | £628 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £851 | £700 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £883 | £728 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £874 | £772 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £883 | £820 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £912 | £881 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £916 | £916 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £917 | £935 |
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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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Telford and Wrekin
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.
£186m in 2026-27 (cash); £183m in 2025-26 prices; £935 per resident; +2.0% on a year earlier in cash, 0.0% 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 | Telford and Wrekin | England | Period |
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Schools block funding per pupilDetails for Schools block funding per pupil | £6,729 | £6,771 | 2026-27 |
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Schools block funding per pupil, real termsDetails for Schools block funding per pupil, real terms | £6,596 | £6,638 | 2026-27 |
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Mainstream school funding per pupilDetails for Mainstream school funding per pupil | £6,955 | £6,996 | 2025-26 |
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Pupils per teacherDetails for Pupils per teacher | 18.0 pupils per teacher | 17.9 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
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Pupils in academiesDetails for Pupils in academies | 57.2% | 62.8% | 2025-26 |
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Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 peopleDetails for Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 people | 1,072 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 | Telford and Wrekin | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £4,538 | £4,645 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £4,977 | £5,063 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £5,146 | £5,221 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £5,467 | £5,534 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £5,789 | £5,839 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,271 | £6,298 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,593 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,729 | £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 | Telford and Wrekin | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £5,805 | £5,941 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £6,050 | £6,154 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £6,241 | £6,332 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £6,194 | £6,270 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £6,232 | £6,286 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,487 | £6,515 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,593 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,596 | £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 | Telford and Wrekin | England |
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2010/11Details for 2010/11 | 17.7 | 17.1 |
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2011/12Details for 2011/12 | 15.5 | 17.2 |
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2012/13Details for 2012/13 | 17.8 | 17.2 |
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2013/14Details for 2013/14 | 18.5 | 17.1 |
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2014/15Details for 2014/15 | 18.1 | 17.1 |
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2015/16Details for 2015/16 | 18.4 | 17.3 |
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2016/17Details for 2016/17 | 18.8 | 17.5 |
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2017/18Details for 2017/18 | 18.6 | 17.9 |
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2018/19Details for 2018/19 | 19.7 | 18.0 |
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2019/20Details for 2019/20 | 18.6 | 18.2 |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 18.4 | 18.0 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 18.2 | 18.0 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 18.7 | 18.0 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 19.2 | 18.1 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
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2025/26Details for 2025/26 | 18.0 | 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 | Telford and Wrekin | England |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 1,077 | 906 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 1,150 | 980 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 1,149 | 938 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 1,097 | 932 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 1,072 | 959 |
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Figure as of 16 July 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Every mainstream school: its allocation for 2025-26
67 mainstream schools with 28,049 pupils were allocated £195m in 2025-26, £6,955 per pupil (England: £6,996). 57.2% 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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Allscott Meads Primary AcademyDetails for Allscott Meads Primary Academy | Primary | 90 | £7,259 | £653,351 | 149446 | Yes |
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Apley Wood Primary AcademyDetails for Apley Wood Primary Academy | Primary | 413 | £5,573 | £2,301,776 | 150527 | Yes |
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Aqueduct Primary AcademyDetails for Aqueduct Primary Academy | Primary | 253 | £6,496 | £1,643,454 | 150710 | Yes |
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Captain Webb Primary SchoolDetails for Captain Webb Primary School | Primary | 394 | £6,426 | £2,531,675 | 123443 | No |
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Charlton SchoolDetails for Charlton School | Secondary | 1,246 | £7,472 | £9,309,783 | 142821 | Yes |
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Church Aston Infant SchoolDetails for Church Aston Infant School | Primary | 53 | £8,222 | £435,742 | 123358 | No |
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Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge CofE Primary SchoolDetails for Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge CofE Primary School | Primary | 168 | £5,878 | £987,453 | 123542 | No |
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Crudgington Primary SchoolDetails for Crudgington Primary School | Primary | 131 | £6,120 | £801,781 | 148314 | Yes |
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Dawley Church of England Primary AcademyDetails for Dawley Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 200 | £7,085 | £1,417,010 | 142785 | Yes |
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Donnington Wood CofE Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolDetails for Donnington Wood CofE Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | 208 | £7,591 | £1,578,861 | 123473 | No |
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Donnington Wood Infant School and Nursery CentreDetails for Donnington Wood Infant School and Nursery Centre | Primary | 124 | £7,930 | £983,375 | 123364 | No |
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Dothill Primary SchoolDetails for Dothill Primary School | Primary | 379 | £5,942 | £2,251,987 | 135496 | No |
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Ercall Wood AcademyDetails for Ercall Wood Academy | Secondary | 995 | £7,425 | £7,387,851 | 145707 | Yes |
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Grange Park Primary SchoolDetails for Grange Park Primary School | Primary | 420 | £6,593 | £2,769,178 | 142705 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' Abraham DarbyDetails for Haberdashers' Abraham Darby | Secondary | 920 | £8,483 | £7,804,256 | 135582 | Yes |
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Haberdashers' AdamsDetails for Haberdashers' Adams | Secondary | 728 | £6,666 | £4,852,946 | 137446 | Yes |
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Hadley Learning Community - Primary PhaseDetails for Hadley Learning Community - Primary Phase | Primary | 627 | £6,747 | £4,230,648 | 144942 | Yes |
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Hadley Learning Community - Secondary PhaseDetails for Hadley Learning Community - Secondary Phase | Secondary | 1,240 | £9,140 | £11,333,464 | 144853 | Yes |
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High Ercall Primary SchoolDetails for High Ercall Primary School | Primary | 149 | £5,675 | £845,574 | 123370 | No |
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Hollinswood Primary SchoolDetails for Hollinswood Primary School | Primary | 335 | £6,436 | £2,155,999 | 123456 | No |
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Holmer Lake Primary SchoolDetails for Holmer Lake Primary School | Primary | 217 | £7,402 | £1,606,160 | 123429 | No |
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Holy Trinity AcademyDetails for Holy Trinity Academy | Secondary | 954 | £7,208 | £6,876,879 | 142067 | No |
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John Fletcher of Madeley Primary SchoolDetails for John Fletcher of Madeley Primary School | Primary | 240 | £6,741 | £1,617,782 | 123526 | No |
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John Randall Primary SchoolDetails for John Randall Primary School | Primary | 202 | £7,910 | £1,597,724 | 123445 | No |
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Ladygrove Primary SchoolDetails for Ladygrove Primary School | Primary | 420 | £5,944 | £2,496,440 | 123438 | No |
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Lantern AcademyDetails for Lantern Academy | Primary | 116 | £7,804 | £905,229 | 149309 | Yes |
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Lawley Primary SchoolDetails for Lawley Primary School | Primary | 421 | £5,403 | £2,274,667 | 123377 | No |
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Lawley Village AcademyDetails for Lawley Village Academy | Primary | 356 | £5,363 | £1,909,090 | 141699 | Yes |
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Lightmoor Village Primary SchoolDetails for Lightmoor Village Primary School | Primary | 212 | £6,236 | £1,322,083 | 135244 | No |
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Lilleshall Primary SchoolDetails for Lilleshall Primary School | Primary | 215 | £5,601 | £1,204,304 | 123378 | No |
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Madeley AcademyDetails for Madeley Academy | Secondary | 988 | £8,078 | £7,981,355 | 135149 | Yes |
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Meadows Primary School and NurseryDetails for Meadows Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 408 | £5,970 | £2,435,731 | 134999 | No |
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Millbrook Primary SchoolDetails for Millbrook Primary School | Primary | 407 | £6,734 | £2,740,875 | 134852 | No |
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Moorfield Primary SchoolDetails for Moorfield Primary School | Primary | 282 | £5,444 | £1,535,193 | 123435 | No |
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Muxton Primary SchoolDetails for Muxton Primary School | Primary | 411 | £5,529 | £2,272,269 | 123453 | No |
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New Road AcademyDetails for New Road Academy | Secondary | 1,159 | £8,397 | £9,731,681 | 150811 | Yes |
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Newdale Primary School & NurseryDetails for Newdale Primary School & Nursery | Primary | 420 | £5,787 | £2,430,664 | 133300 | No |
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Newport Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolDetails for Newport Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | 309 | £5,773 | £1,783,982 | 123489 | No |
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Newport Girls' High School AcademyDetails for Newport Girls' High School Academy | Secondary | 599 | £6,683 | £4,003,333 | 136516 | Yes |
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Newport Infant School and NurseryDetails for Newport Infant School and Nursery | Primary | 189 | £6,154 | £1,163,169 | 123384 | No |
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Old Park Primary SchoolDetails for Old Park Primary School | Primary | 540 | £6,686 | £3,610,479 | 133270 | No |
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Priorslee AcademyDetails for Priorslee Academy | Primary | 412 | £5,449 | £2,244,900 | 136439 | Yes |
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Randlay Primary SchoolDetails for Randlay Primary School | Primary | 325 | £6,286 | £2,042,916 | 123441 | No |
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Redhill Primary AcademyDetails for Redhill Primary Academy | Primary | 419 | £5,349 | £2,241,195 | 146026 | Yes |
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Short Wood Primary SchoolDetails for Short Wood Primary School | Primary | 491 | £6,263 | £3,074,950 | 104939 | No |
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Sir Alexander Fleming Primary SchoolDetails for Sir Alexander Fleming Primary School | Primary | 349 | £7,365 | £2,570,325 | 132086 | No |
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St George's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St George's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 531 | £5,893 | £3,129,158 | 123527 | No |
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St Lawrence Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolDetails for St Lawrence Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | 81 | £7,658 | £620,302 | 123496 | No |
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St Luke's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy.Details for St Luke's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy. | Primary | 157 | £6,707 | £1,053,045 | 151101 | Yes |
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St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 191 | £7,320 | £1,398,183 | 123556 | No |
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St Matthew's Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery CentreDetails for St Matthew's Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery Centre | Primary | 273 | £6,766 | £1,847,200 | 123557 | No |
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St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolDetails for St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 213 | £5,769 | £1,228,749 | 150401 | Yes |
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St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyDetails for St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | Primary | 167 | £5,612 | £937,141 | 151100 | Yes |
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St Peter's Bratton Church of England AcademyDetails for St Peter's Bratton Church of England Academy | Primary | 410 | £5,388 | £2,208,978 | 148716 | Yes |
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St Peter's Church of England Controlled Primary School and NurseryDetails for St Peter's Church of England Controlled Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 208 | £5,624 | £1,169,819 | 123474 | No |
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Teagues Bridge Primary SchoolDetails for Teagues Bridge Primary School | Primary | 264 | £6,244 | £1,648,339 | 123451 | No |
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The Burton Borough SchoolDetails for The Burton Borough School | Secondary | 1,129 | £7,136 | £8,056,662 | 150363 | Yes |
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The Telford Langley SchoolDetails for The Telford Langley School | Secondary | 1,185 | £8,124 | £9,626,744 | 139766 | Yes |
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The Telford Park SchoolDetails for The Telford Park School | Secondary | 739 | £8,593 | £6,349,934 | 150716 | Yes |
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Tibberton Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Tibberton Church of England Primary School | Primary | 122 | £5,958 | £726,854 | 123505 | No |
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William Reynolds Primary SchoolDetails for William Reynolds Primary School | Primary | 412 | £7,194 | £2,963,731 | 123433 | No |
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Windmill Primary SchoolDetails for Windmill Primary School | Primary | 335 | £7,347 | £2,461,270 | 145745 | Yes |
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Wombridge Primary SchoolDetails for Wombridge Primary School | Primary | 274 | £6,780 | £1,857,840 | 123404 | No |
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Woodlands Primary SchoolDetails for Woodlands Primary School | Primary | 405 | £6,975 | £2,824,792 | 135031 | No |
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Wrekin View Primary SchoolDetails for Wrekin View Primary School | Primary | 408 | £5,902 | £2,408,198 | 147579 | Yes |
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Wrockwardine Wood Church of England Junior SchoolDetails for Wrockwardine Wood Church of England Junior School | Primary | 254 | £6,243 | £1,585,632 | 123520 | No |
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Wrockwardine Wood Infant School and NurseryDetails for Wrockwardine Wood Infant School and Nursery | Primary | 157 | £6,566 | £1,030,885 | 123406 | 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 → Telford and Wrekin. 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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