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FOI/202500454704 · FOI · unclear

Costs of operating Primary and Secondary Education: FOI release

Published
2025-03-27
Received
2025-02-26
Responded
2025-03-12
Directorate
Learning Directorate
Topic
Education, Public sector
Exemptions
None detected

Information requested

The costs to run Primary Education and the costs to run Secondary Education.

Response

Statistics on the costs of operating Scottish schools can be found through the Scottish Government’s Local Government Finance Statistics collection. The most recently available finalised statistics cover the 2023-24 financial year, where full school spending statistics can be found in LFR01. In addition to these, the Scottish Government publishes local government provisional outturn and budget estimates, the most recently published of which cover the period up to 2024-25. Publication of budget estimates for 2025-26 is scheduled for June 2025 and these statistics will be made available on the Scottish Government’s Local Government Finance Statistics collection website upon publication.

About FOI

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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Correspondence Unit Email: contactus@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrew's House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG

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