The Pupil Premium is an allocation of additional funding provided to schools to support specific groups of children who are vulnerable to possible underachievement. These include pupils who are entitled to free school meals; those looked after by the local authority and the children of armed service personnel.

All schools are required to report on the amount of funding received and details of how it is intended that the allocation will be spent. Schools are also required to report on details of how the previous academic year’s expenditure on educational attainment of those pupils at the school in respect of whom grant funding was allocated.