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

Department For Education

December 18
16:29 2024

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

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

Impact of the schoolsNFF 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 actual funding may be different to the amounts shown in these tables.

Impact of the high needsNFF sets out local authority provisional high needs allocations for 2025 to 2026. It also shows how we have calculated the allocations.

Impact of the central school services blockNFF 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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