What will be the impact of extending universal free school meals in London?
We run through some options for evaluating the impact on absence and attainment of extending free school meals to pupils in Years 3 to 6 in schools in the Capital.
Schools Like Yours – Updated for 2022
We have updated our Schools Like Yours tool with the most recent published datasets, including Key Stage 4 data for 2022
How much Pupil Premium funding have schools missed out on?
See how much funding schools have missed out on as a result of changes to the way pupil premium funding has been allocated this year.
Breaking down education spending in England
School funding is likely to be a key issue in the coming election. But how much is spent on schools and other parts of the education system?
How much Pupil Premium funding are primary schools missing out on?
Primary schools could have been £67m worse off in 2017/18 as a result of the universal infant free school meals policy.
The gender pay gap in academy trusts
The government's gender pay gap data has revealed huge disparities in how much men and women are paid.
Long-term disadvantage, part four: Our friends in the north
This is part three in a series of blogposts exploring long-term disadvantage. Other posts in the series can be found here. Some of you might remember the 1996 TV series in which Christopher Ecclestone plays Nicky Hutchinson. As an impatient politician he argues that “Tomorrow is too late”. The Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) has today issued [...]
Long-term disadvantage, part four: If Carlsberg made schools…and also designed funding formulae?
This is part four in a series of blogposts exploring long-term disadvantage. Other posts in the series can be found here. At the start of the summer we showed that there are substantial differences in the attainment and progress of pupils who have been disadvantaged at some stage. The main findings of these earlier posts were [...]
Falling disadvantage rates mean London schools are having to get used to life with less Pupil Premium funding
Figures came out recently that showed that the proportion of children eligible for free school meals (FSM) was at its lowest level since 2001 [PDF], when pupil-level information on this was first collected nationally. This is likely to be for a combination of reasons: an economy that has improved since the early 2010s, meaning fewer parents [...]