FOI/202400439341 · FOI · unclear
Expenditure per pupil for primary and secondary school education: FOI release
Information requested
Could I please have the data supplied to ScotGov last month on spend per pupil in education, secondary and primary, for each individual council area in Scotland for fiscal year 2023-2024.
Response
Local authority expenditure on education is currently being collected from local authorities (LAs) as part of the Local Financial Return 2023-24 data collection. A total of 24 LAs submitted data in October 2024. We are currently undertaking quality assurance of the data to ensure it is fit for publication. Education expenditure is collected in LFR 01.
Your request is specifically for spend per pupil in each council area. Pupil statistics are published at Pupil census supplementary statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) and this gives the number of pupils in primary and secondary schools for each local authority. We’ve used the pupil census 2023 supplementary statistics.
Combining the unvalidated local authority expenditure information from LFR 01 with the pupil census statistics, average gross expenditure (£) per pupil is detailed in the table below. (NA = not available).
Local Authority Primary Secondary Aberdeen City 6,953 8,838 Aberdeenshire 7,028 9,099 Angus 7,123 8,937 Argyll & Bute 9,913 12,543 City of Edinburgh 6,676 8,524 Clackmannanshire NA NA Dumfries & Galloway NA NA Dundee City 7,097 8,646 East Ayrshire 7,524 9,003 East Dunbartonshire NA NA East Lothian 7,085 8,573 East Renfrewshire 6,961 9,116 Falkirk 7,200 8,792 Fife 7,384 8,597 Glasgow City 7,110 9,343 Highland NA NA Inverclyde NA NA Midlothian 7,840 9,225 Moray 7,165 9,167 Na h-Eileanan Siar NA NA North Ayrshire 8,520 9,890 North Lanarkshire 7,277 8,750 Orkney Islands 11,647 14,388 Perth & Kinross 7,992 10,329 Renfrewshire 7,462 8,859 Scottish Borders 7,655 10,451 Shetland Islands 11,350 13,958 South Ayrshire NA NA South Lanarkshire NA NA Stirling 8,143 9,718 West Dunbartonshire 8,567 9,660 West Lothian 7,531 8,919
Please note this is based on unvalidated LFR 01 data. Figures may change between now and publication in February 2025. A Scotland figure is unavailable due to the eight missing authorities.
Expenditure information will be published as part of Scottish Local Finance Statistics 2023-24 and this has been pre-announced for publication in February 2025. In line with the Code of Practice for Official statistics (T3.1), the exact publication date will be announced at least four weeks in advance of publication and will be notified at: Official statistics: forthcoming publications - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
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