In this note we draw from IFS analysis of trends in school funding and expected pressures by 2024-25 under current funding settlements and use it to estimate the financial impact on average sized primary and secondary schools.1
School funding pressures by 2024-2025
Between 2009–10 and 2019–20, spending per pupil in England fell by 9 per cent in real terms. The government set out additional funding in the 2019 spending round and 2021 spending review and said that this would restore spending per pupil back to 2010 levels in 2024-25 based on inflation measured by the GDP deflator.
