A headteacher has warned the new pay deal for teachers may end up meaning schools have to make further cuts as they try to balance budgets.
Liz Bartholomew, from Mayflower Primary in Dovercourt in Essex, said she was expecting to be around £10,000 out of pocket by funding the new 6.5% pay rise.
Teaching unions across the country called off strike action as they accepted the deal on Monday.
Mrs Bartholomew said she thought teachers deserved the money but feared some schools would be left making cutbacks to pay the extra cash to staff.
She said she had only budgeted for a pay rise of 3.5% on the advice of the local authority.
The government said it would fund the shortfall, but Mrs Bartholomew said their plan appeared to be calibrated on pupil numbers rather than actual staff - which would still leave her short.
"It will have an impact unfortunately," she told ITV News Anglia.
"It just means that any allocation we did in March, when schools set a budget for the following year [...] we will have to make those budgets smaller and scrape back as much as we can to cover the shortfall.
