Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2025 to 2026
Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2025 to 2026 financial year
Applies to England
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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
Pupil premium (PP) grant provides additional funding for state-funded schools in England to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Schools and local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the PP conditions of grant.
Allocations
We have now published the initial pupil premium grant allocations 2025 to 2026.
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- looked-after children (LAC), including previously looked-after children (PLAC)
- pupils recorded on the alternative provision (AP) census as receiving free school meals
- service children
- general hospital school pupils
We鈥檝e uploaded a statement in聽聽for each academy trust showing the unsuppressed initial pupil premium allocations for the academies in each trust. Statements can be viewed and downloaded from the 鈥楧ocuments received鈥� section when signing in to Document exchange with your聽academy trust UKPRN聽account details in DfE sign-in.
Note these initial allocations do not include pupil referral units (PRUs) and alternative provision (AP) academies which were formerly PRUs. We will include these in the next allocations update in June 2025.
If you do not have access to Document exchange as an academy trust user, please contact the relevant DfE Sign-in approver within your trust organisation, who will be able to set up trust level access for you. If you experience any issues accessing DfE Sign-In, please contact the聽
Schools can confirm the names of individual pupils included in the allocation via the Get Information About Pupils (GIAP) site. GIAP can be accessed via鈥�
Updates to this page
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We have made updated the text in the last 2 paragraphs of section 2.3 in the technical note to clarify how the 2 allocations across the year inform payments. In section 6 of the technical note, we have added content on school mergers and also added 2 subheadings (鈥�6.1 Closures and openings鈥� and 鈥�6.2 Academy conversions鈥�) to be clearer in the section.
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We have published the initial pupil premium grant allocations for the financial year 2025 to 2026.
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First published.