Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium provides additional funding on top of the main funding a school receives. It is targeted at students from disadvantaged backgrounds to ensure they benefit from the same opportunities as students from less deprived families. From September 2025, the premium will be worth £1550 (per eligible student) and is allocated to students who at any point in the past 6 years have been in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM); Schools will receive £2,690 for any pupil: identified in the October 2025 school census or the alternative provision census as having left local authority care as a result of: adoption, a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order),who has been in local authority care for 1 day or more or recorded as both eligible for FSM in the last 6 years and as being looked after (or as having left local authority care).
For pupils who attract the £2,690 rate, the virtual school head of the local authority that looks after the pupil will manage the funding.
Finally £360 is allocated to students whose parent/parents are currently serving in the armed forces or are in receipt of a pension from the MoD.
For more information please follow this link:
Pupil premium 2025 to 2026: conditions of grant for local authorities – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Eligibility
All schools that are eligible for pupil premium are eligible for recovery premium. This includes the following types of schools:
- mainstream primary, secondary and all through local authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools serving children aged 4 to 15
- local authority-maintained special schools
- special academies and free schools
- non-maintained special schools
- pupil referral units
- alternative provision (AP) academies and free schools
- local authority-maintained hospital schools and academies
For further information about how St Catherine’s spends pupil premium funding, please see below:
Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2025-2026