Pupil Premium is a government funding allowance that is additional to the main funding that schools receive. It was introduced in April 2011 to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England. It is used for the benefit of pupils who are eligible for free school meals, or have been eligible in the past six years, those who have been adopted from care or have left care and children who are looked after by the local authority. Evidence shows that these pupils generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as other pupils.
Schools decide how they spend their Pupil Premium, as they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual pupils within their care to ensure it has the highest possible impact on attainment and success. Expenditure is monitored closely, with all schools accountable for the impact of the money spent.
For the academic year 2024-25, Chestnut Grove received £295,455 in Pupil Premium funding allocation, with recovery funding and funding carried forward from previous years bringing the total to £295,455.
Read our Pupil Premium Strategy Statement for 2025-26 for more information on the following:
- a summary of the challenges to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
- how the Pupil Premium is spent to overcome those challenges – for this academic year and the previous one
- how the effect/impact of the Pupil Premium on pupils is measured for this academic year
- the outcomes of Pupil Premium in the previous academic year
- the date of the next review of the school’s Pupil Premium strategy.
