Expenditure per school pupil by local authority: FOI release
- Published
- 3 March 2021
- Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Topic
- Education, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202100140749
- Date received
- 20 January 2021
- Date responded
- 29 January 2021
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
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 |
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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.
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