The coalition’s analysis suggests that increases in funding for 2025/26 will not be enough to cover rising costs for a large majority of schools – including 76% of primary and 94% of secondary schools.
The campaign group forecasts that schools’ costs for 2025/26 will rise by 3.4% – including the government’s proposed unfunded 2.8% pay rise for teachers from September 2025.
At the same time, it calculates that mainstream school funding is currently set to increase by just 2.2%.
The calculations – which are set out on the campaign’s website (see methodology below) – suggest that every local authority will see a real-terms drop in per-pupil funding.
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