Education Funding Agency
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Date: 23rd November 2016
Ref: ENQ-192151-D5S7Q2
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Dear Mr Jolley,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 25th October 2016. You requested:
“I would like to know which free schools have been informed they will have some of their funding clawed back due to lower then expected numbers.
I would also like to know the amounts involved for each of the individual schools and if possible how much has actually been recovered as of today.”
The funding agreements for schools initially funded on the basis of estimated pupil numbers include a clause to the effect that the Education Funding Agency (EFA) will calculate adjustments in each academic year, to bring allocations back into line with the actual number of pupils on roll, as reported by institutions in their schools census returns. This is referred to as a Pupil Number Adjustment (PNA).
The most recent year that we have PNA data for is 2015/16. The EFA is just starting to calculate PNA for the current academic year, 2016/17, and schools will be notified of any adjustments in the Spring.
As requested, I have attached a table at Annex A which shows 2015/16 PNA for free schools. Adjustments can be positive as well as negative - where a census return shows that a school has recruited more pupils than originally estimated. Positive adjustments generate additional payments. For negative PNA the EFA will recovery funding in instalments from the following academic year's grant allocation.
As we have not completed calculations for the recovery of 2015/16 PNA from 2016/17 grant allocations we do not hold information on how much will be recovered at this time.
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you should make a complaint to the Department by writing to me within two calendar months of the date of this letter . Your complaint will be considered by an independent review pane, who were not involved in the original consideration of your request.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Yours sincerely
Richard Stewart
Academies and Maintained Schools Funding Division
Education Funding Agency
Annex A
School name / 2015/16 Pupil Number Adjustment / Positive / NegativeAbacus Belsize Primary School / -£45,087 / Negative
Aldborough Primary School / -£50,396 / Negative
Ark Bolingbroke Academy / -£22,489 / Negative
Ascot Road Community Free School / -£9,949 / Negative
Atherton Community School / -£243,108 / Negative
Beccles Free School / £23,769 / Positive
Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove / -£1,959 / Negative
Bolton Wanderers Free School / -£566,207 / Negative
Boston Pioneers Free School Academy / £11,025 / Positive
Bradford Girls' Grammar School / -£102,112 / Negative
Braywick Court School / £16,184 / Positive
Bristol Free School / -£48,990 / Negative
Brook House Primary School / £53,701 / Positive
Cambourne Village College / -£111,264 / Negative
Canary Wharf College / -£15,476 / Negative
Canary Wharf College 2 / -£16,775 / Negative
Cathedral Primary School / -£63,422 / Negative
Chapeltown Academy / -£104,825 / Negative
Chetwynde School / -£34,471 / Negative
Chichester Free School / -£3,734 / Negative
City of Peterborough Academy / -£57,266 / Negative
Collective Spirit Free School / £53,800 / Positive
Compass School Southwark / -£270,803 / Negative
Connell Sixth Form College / -£1,206,868 / Negative
Cramlington Village Primary School / -£14,966 / Negative
Cringle Brook Primary School / -£17,857 / Negative
Discovery School / -£949,306 / Negative
Dixons Kings Academy / -£39,533 / Negative
East London Arts & Music / -£65,514 / Negative
East London Science School / -£62,229 / Negative
Eden Boys' School Bolton / £39,901 / Positive
Eden Girls' School Coventry / -£5,562 / Negative
Eden Primary / -£3,884 / Negative
Emmanuel Community School / -£35,383 / Negative
Essa Primary School / £58,334 / Positive
Evendons Primary School / £50,656 / Positive
Falcons Primary School / -£300,300 / Negative
Fulham Boys School / -£27,231 / Negative
Gildredge House / -£76,466 / Negative
Goresbrook School / -£109,618 / Negative
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Temple Grove Free School / -£4,533 / Negative
Hackney New School / -£31,538 / Negative
Hadlow Rural Community School / -£76,802 / Negative
Harpenden Free School / -£18,832 / Negative
Harris Academy Tottenham / -£184,273 / Negative
Harris Invictus Academy Croydon / -£10,459 / Negative
Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich / -£150,774 / Negative
Harris Primary Academy Shortlands / -£31,223 / Negative
Harris Westminster Sixth Form / -£79,214 / Negative
Heron Hall Academy / £27,363 / Positive
Heyford Park Free School / £73,716 / Positive
Holy Trinity / -£56,549 / Negative
Holyport College / £91,131 / Positive
Hope Community School / -£12,213 / Negative
Ingleby Manor Free School & Sixth Form / -£46,676 / Negative
Ixworth Free School / -£97,301 / Negative
Jane Austen College / -£73,649 / Negative
Jubilee Primary School / -£18,090 / Negative
Judith Kerr Primary School / -£62,359 / Negative
Jupiter Community Free School / £6,188 / Positive
Khalsa Science Academy / -£9,688 / Negative
Khalsa Secondary Academy / £49,756 / Positive
Kimberley 16 - 19 Stem College / £86,609 / Positive
King's College London Maths School / -£41,847 / Negative
King's School / -£19,211 / Negative
Krishna Avanti Primary School / -£1,107 / Negative
La Fontaine Academy / £126,363 / Positive
Lanchester Community Free School / -£9,243 / Negative
Langdale Free School / -£66,061 / Negative
LIPA Primary School / -£8,049 / Negative
London Enterprise Academy / -£221,420 / Negative
Longsight Community Primary / -£13,090 / Negative
Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy / -£42,392 / Negative
Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School / -£6,673 / Negative
Marine Academy Primary / -£74,792 / Negative
Marylebone Boys' School / £6,338 / Positive
Meridian Angel Primary School / -£11,798 / Negative
Mosaic Jewish Primary School / -£103,944 / Negative
Nanaksar Primary School / -£66,709 / Negative
New Islington Free School / £27,220 / Positive
Nishkam High School / -£29,127 / Negative
Nishkam School West London / -£12,734 / Negative
North Somerset Enterprise and Technology College / -£354,450 / Negative
Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology / -£253,927 / Negative
Oakbank / -£216,054 / Negative
Oasis Academy Silvertown / -£169,578 / Negative
Oasis Academy South Bank / £29,325 / Positive
One In A Million Free School / -£5,659 / Negative
Park Community School / £38,082 / Positive
Parkfield School / -£493,655 / Negative
Paxton Academy Sports and Science / -£157,808 / Negative
Perry Beeches II The Free School / -£131,232 / Negative
Perry Beeches III the Free School / -£462,085 / Negative
Perry Beeches IV - The Free School / -£143,565 / Negative
Plymouth School of Creative Arts / -£125,048 / Negative
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School / -£215,428 / Negative
Rainbow Primary School / -£598 / Negative
River Bank Primary School / £232,019 / Positive
Riverside School / £22,922 / Positive
Robert Owen Academy / -£315,496 / Negative
Route 39 Academy / -£254,595 / Negative
Rutherford House School / -£13,719 / Negative
Salisbury Sixth Form College / -£86,272 / Negative
Sandymoor / -£23,107 / Negative
Saxmundham Free School / £37,183 / Positive
Seva School / -£491,862 / Negative
Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Free School / -£208,549 / Negative
Solebay Primary - A Paradigm Academy / £100,442 / Positive
Southwark Free School / -£104,150 / Negative
Sparkwell All Saints Primary School / £7,540 / Positive
St Marys Church of England Primary Norwood Green / -£20,116 / Negative
St Mary's Hampton Church of England Primary / -£11,038 / Negative
Steiner Academy Bristol / £12,212 / Positive
Steiner Academy Exeter / -£76,347 / Negative
Steiner Academy Frome / -£3,116 / Negative
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School / -£5,198 / Negative
The Archer Academy / £5,504 / Positive
The Boulevard Academy / -£58,435 / Negative
The Heights Primary School / £15,218 / Positive
The Minerva Academy / -£137,654 / Negative
The Olive School Blackburn / £3,687 / Positive
The Reach Free School / -£135,079 / Negative
The Rural Enterprise Academy / -£174,563 / Negative
The Ruth Gorse Academy / -£15,591 / Negative
The Swanage School / -£147,227 / Negative
The Wells Free School / -£3,190 / Negative
Thomson House School / £3,657 / Positive
Tooting Primary School / -£4,682 / Negative
Trinity Academy / -£63,697 / Negative
Trinity School / -£17,450 / Negative
Tyndale Community School / -£10,556 / Negative
University Cathedral Free School / £17,130 / Positive
Wapping High School / -£187,245 / Negative
West London Free School Primary / -£4,449 / Negative
West Newcastle Academy / £17,669 / Positive
Whitehall Park School / -£34,157 / Negative
William Perkin Church of England High School / £15,239 / Positive
Wye School / -£4,310 / Negative
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