School Financial Benchmarking Report

2011/12 Financial Year

Introduction

This report is based on Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) data for the 2011/12 financial year. The report compares school spending in key areas against our statistical neighbours. These are schools with the following characteristics:

At the time of the school census data on which these comparisons are based we had 310 pupils. All figures are based on total school expenditure, regardless of income source.

Note that this is a factual presentation of financial statistics and does not include any analysis.

Staff per Pupil

  • Our spending on staff per pupils is almost exactly the average of our statistical neighbours

Staffing as Percentage of Expenditure

  • We spend 76.88% of our total income on staffing (including supply staffing)
  • Our total staffing spend is again almost exactly the average

Supply Teacher Expenditure

  • Our spending on supply teachers is significantly larger (both as a percentage and per pupil) than both the average and the upper quartile of our statistical neighbours

  • Spending on supply staff has also been rising from a low in 2009/10 for the past three financial years, with a significant jump in 2011/12

Teaching Staff Expenditure (Employed)

  • Our total expenditure on employedteaching staff (including leadership) is slightly below the average of our statistical neighbours

Total Teaching Staff Expenditure (Supply and Employed)

  • However our total spending on all teachers (including leadership and supply teachers) almost exactly matches the average of our statistical neighbours

Educational Support to Teacher Staffing Ratio

  • Our average educational support (TA, INA) staff ratio is around the average of our statistical neighbours

Educational Support Staff Expenditure

  • Our expenditure on education support staff (TA's and INAs) is again around the average of our statistical neighbours

Other Staff Expenditure

  • Our expenditure on other staff (MDSAs) is again almost exactly the average of our statistical neighbours

Administrative Staff Expenditure

  • Our expenditure on other Administrative staff, (Business Manager, Bursar, Secretary, Clerk to Governors, ICT Support) is slightly above the average of our statistical neighbours, but below the upper quartile

School Maintenance and Improvements Expenditure

  • Our expenditure on buildings maintenance and improvements is well above the average of our statistical neighbours,. and is above the upper quartile
  • However our grounds maintenance and improvements expenditure is well below the average, and just above the lower quartile
  • Overall, our expenditure on buildings maintenance and improvements (buildings and grounds) is just below the average of our statistical neighbours
  • We also spend slightly less than average on our premises staff
  • Therefore, overall our total premises expenditure (maintenance, improvements and staffing) are just below the average of our statistical neighbours

Learning Resources Expenditure

  • Our expenditure on learning resourcesis well above the upper quartile, and is 270% of the average of our statistical neighbours

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