Schools in affluent areas with small
numbers of pupils eligible for funding will also have very limited budgets to work with, which will limit the range of interventions that they can potentially use.
The poorest fifth schools, as defined by
the number of pupils eligible for free school meals, spent on average 31 per cent more per pupil than the richest fifth.
She said funding levels needed to keep up with changing needs - and gentrification in London meant that
the number of pupils eligible for free meals had reduced.
For other school groups, however,
the number of pupils eligible for free entry rose to 30.
Not exact matches
In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the
number of primary school
pupils eligible for free school meals».
The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the
number of pupils on
eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).
Only 2.5 per cent
of grammar school
pupils are
eligible for FSM, compared to 13.2 per cent in all schools and the EPI found that grammar schools attract a larger
number of high attaining non-FSM
pupils from other areas, meaning there is a disproportionately large
number of high attaining, non-disadvantaged children.
Schools» eligibility for a bursary will be decided based on the
number of pupils who are
eligible for free school meals or
pupil premium.
The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition
of each school, the percentage
of students
eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator
of family poverty), the average
number of students in each grade (a measure
of school size), and the school's
pupil - teacher ratio (an measure
of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.
The results found that grammar schools only take in a small
number of pupils who are, or have been,
eligible for free school meals.
These characteristics include, in addition to a variety
of measures
of student achievement as
of 1996, the percentages
of students in the school that are
eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the
pupil - teacher ratio and the
number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures
of the qualifications
of the teaching staff.
Senior Labour MP Lucy Powell published figures showing the capital had the biggest gap between the
number of pupils at grammars
eligible for free school meals compared with the figure for the broader school population.
Critics
of the expansion plans have focused on the low
number of pupils attending grammar schools who are
eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure
of poverty.
($ 175 - $ 300 per
pupil),
number of «LCFF
eligible» students, [1] current School Performance Framework tier ($ 70 - $ 215 per
pupil), and on «Z score,» which the district uses to measure challenging «environmental factors» such as neighborhood crime ($ 25K — $ 100K per school).
Based on the
number of pupils in year 3 to 6 not currently
eligible for free school meals, and a take - up
of 90 per cent in the pilot, the IFS estimates the extension
of free meals to all primary
pupils would cost around # 800 million a year.
The Families
of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage
of pupils eligible for free school meals and the
number of children who speak English as an additional language.
The
Pupil Deprivation Grant promises to pass the money directly to schools, based on the
number of children
eligible for free school meals.
«We are increasing the
pupil premium to # 2.5 bn a year and doubling the
number of disadvantaged two - year - olds
eligible for free nursery places to 260,000.
Parents who don't register their eligibility also pose a problem for school budgets, as things like
pupil premium cash is paid based on the
number of FSM -
eligible pupils.
The interactive tool puts schools into families
of 50 based on factors including prior attainment, percentage
of pupils eligible for free school meals and the
number of children with English as an additional language.
As the
number of benefit claimants decreases, the proportion
of pupils eligible for FSM falls.