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Financial Benchmarking

Please find below the link to St Paul's Financial Benchmarking

Your school - Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool - GOV.UK

What is financial benchmarking?

Financial benchmarking compares how a school receives and spends its money with schools that are like it.

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The Department for Education publishes every school's income and spending in its Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. The tool sets our figures beside those of schools similar to ours, so anyone can see where our spending is typical and where it differs.

We use these comparisons when we plan our budget, to make sure as much money as possible reaches the classroom. We publish the link so that families, governors and our community can see the same figures we do.

See St Pauls in the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (GOV.UK, opens in a new tab)

If you have a question about the school's finances, please contact the school office.

What the tool shows

Open a topic to read what it covers and how to make sense of it.

Income

Where our money comes from. Most of it is government funding for each pupil, alongside grants for particular purposes, such as the Pupil Premium, and any income the school raises itself.

Spending

How the money is used, grouped into areas such as teaching staff, support staff, premises, energy, learning resources and catering. In a primary school, most spending goes on the people who teach and care for the children.

Comparison with similar schools

Each figure sits beside a group of schools chosen because they are like ours, for example in the number of pupils and the proportion who need extra support. Spending is usually shown per pupil, so schools of different sizes can be compared fairly.

Reading the figures

A figure above or below similar schools is not good or bad in itself. The size of a school, the age of its buildings and the needs of its pupils all change what it spends. The figures describe a completed financial year, so they are not today's budget.

Money at work in our school

Our budget pays for the people, places and resources our pupils use every day.

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