Edinburgh spent less on primary and secondary pupils in 2016/17 than all but one local authority in Scotland, according to figures that opposition councillors have called a “wake-up call”.
The capital also scored the lowest satisfaction level with schools out of all 32 councils.
Secondary pupils in the city had £6,252 spent on them per-year, against an average £6,806. For primary schools it was £4,105 compared with an average of £4,788. For both sectors, East Lothian was the only authority to spend less.
Satisfaction with the city’s schools reached 62.7 per cent, next to an average of 75.3 per cent for Scotland, according to the Local Government Benchmarking Framework.
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