Background

Pupil Premium provides additional funding to enable schools to support disadvantaged, vulnerable pupils and help close the gap in standards achieved.

Pupils eligible for Pupil Premium are:

•    pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals

•    ever 6 entitlement to Pupil Premium is the number of children who have been registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years

•    children who have been looked after continuously for more than 6 months

We also receive additional funding at a lower rate to support:

•    children of armed services personnel