FOI/202100140749 · FOI · unclear
Expenditure per school pupil by local authority: FOI release
Information requested
What is the gross revenue expenditure per school pupil broken down by local authority area, for the most recent complete year that it is available for.
Response
The table below presents per pupil expenditure by Local Authority at Primary and Secondary school level for the 2018/19 tax year.
Expenditure per pupil 2018/19 Local Authority Primary Secondary Aberdeen City £5,392 £7,775 Aberdeenshire £5,573 £7,293 Angus £5,233 £6,940 Argyll & Bute £6,851 £10,142 Clackannanshire £5,153 £8,498 Dumfries & Galloway £5,487 £7,383 Dundee City £5,143 £7,368 East Ayrshire £5,705 £7,630 East Dunbartonshire £4,924 £7,635 East Lothian £4,915 £6,566 East Renfrewshire £4,980 £7,136 Edinburgh City £5,385 £7,418 Nah-Eileanan Siar £9,744 £11,959 Falkirk £4,730 £7,089 Fife £5,060 £6,654 Glasgow City £5,346 £8,327 Highland £5,771 £7,746 Inverclyde £5,481 £7,456 Midlothian £5,595 £7,148 Moray £4,945 £7,198 North Ayrshire £5,873 £7,652 North Lanarkshire £5,680 £7,180 Orkney Islands £8,560 £11,158 Perth & Kinross £5,796 £8,161 Renfrewshire £4,681 £6,566 Scottish Borders £5,584 £7,685 Shetland Islands £8,093 £11,146 South Ayrshire £5,555 £7,061 South Lanarkshire £5,523 £6,920 Stirling £5,392 £6,991 West Dunbartonshire £6,175 £7,172 West Lothian £5,513 £6,988 All local authorities £5,451 £7,444
These figures were calculated using the most recent 2018/19 Local Government Finance Statistics. These are available from Scottish local government finance statistics (SLGFS) 2018-19: workbooks - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). Education expenditure by Local Authority has been taken from line 16 of the "2018-19 LFR 01- revised 22 September 2020" excel document. Pupil data was acquired from the 2018 Pupil Census to align with 2018/19 Finance Statistics. Pupil Census data are available from Pupil census: supplementary statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot), Pupil census 2020 supplementary statistics, Tables 6.2 and 7.2. Expenditure per pupil across special schools has not been provided. This is because, for confidentiality reasons, the number of special school pupils are not published for Local Authorities with small numbers of these pupils. About FOI
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