Guidance

National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2025 to 2026

Tables showing provisional allocations for the schools, high needs and central school services blocks from 2025 to 2026.

Applies to England

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Details

These tables are mainly for schools and local authorities. They cover the聽national funding formulae (NFF)聽聽allocations for 2025 to 2026.

鈥�NFF summary tables鈥� sets out the combined effect of all the formulae at local authority level.

鈥業mpact of the schools聽NFF鈥� sets out notional school-level allocations for 2025 to 2026. Local authorities will continue to set a local formula to distribute funding to schools in their area. This means schools鈥� actual funding may be different to the amounts shown in these tables.

鈥業mpact of the high needs聽NFF鈥� sets out local authority provisional high needs allocations for 2025 to 2026. It also shows how we have calculated the allocations.

鈥業mpact of the central school services block聽NFF鈥� sets out local authority provisional central school services allocations for 2025 to 2026. It also shows how we have calculated the allocations.

The technical notes explain how we have calculated the local authority and school level allocations under the formulae.

Schools and local authorities can now find the detailed calculations behind their notional schools block allocations. These are on the COLLECT system. The supplementary guidance has more details on how to access COLLECT.

Updates to this page

Published 28 November 2024
Last updated 18 December 2024 show all updates
  1. We have added 'National funding formula notional allocations: supplementary guidance'. This includes guidance on how to find the detailed calculations behind notional schools block allocations.

  2. First published.

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