The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
The grant also provides support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Department for Education expects all schools to use the wealth of evidence of ‘what works’, evaluated by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), to use this funding effectively.
We are required to publish a strategy statement annually, which must explain how the pupil premium funding is being spent and how the school is improving outcomes for pupils by how it is spending its funding.
| Pupil Premium Strategy 2024-25 |