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Gap between worst and best funded schools comes to more than £1.9m

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The best funded schools get £6,297 per-pupil while the worst funded get £4,208 – a shortfall that is equivalent to the cost of hiring 40 teachers. School leaders have now called for unfair funding settlements to end. Pete Henshaw reports.

The gap between the best and worst funded schools in England is the equivalent to the cost of hiring 40 teachers, analysis shows.

Ahead of its annual conference this week, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) is trying to illustrate to ministers the problems created by huge funding disparities across the country.

Its figures show that over the next 12 months schools in the worst funded areas will each receive around £1.92 million less than those in the best funded areas.

Schools in the 10 best funded areas will on average receive grants of £6,297 per-pupil for 2015/16, compared to an average of £4,208 per-pupil in the 10 worst funded areas.

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