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Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant 2025 to 2026

Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2025 to 2026 financial year

Applies to England

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Pupil premium (PP) grant provides additional funding for state-funded schools in England to raise the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Schools and local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the PP conditions of grant.

Allocations

We have now published the confirmed quarter 1 pupil premium grant allocations for 2025 to 2026. These allocations include pupil referral units (PRUs) and alternative provision (AP) academies which were formerly PRUs.

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  • looked-after children (LAC), including previously looked-after children (PLAC)
  • pupils recorded on the AP census as receiving free school meals
  • service children
  • general hospital school pupils

We鈥檝e uploaded a statement in聽聽for each academy trust showing the unsuppressed initial pupil premium allocations for the academies in each trust. Statements can be viewed and downloaded from the 鈥楧ocuments received鈥 section when signing in to Document exchange with your聽academy trust UKPRN聽account details in DfE sign-in.

If you do not have access to Document exchange as an academy trust user, please contact the relevant DfE Sign-in approver within your trust organisation, who will be able to set up trust level access for you. If you experience any issues accessing DfE Sign-In, please contact the .

Schools can confirm the names of individual pupils included in the allocation via the Get Information About Pupils (GIAP) site. GIAP can be accessed via鈥

Updates to this page

Published 25 March 2025
Last updated 24 June 2025 show all updates
  1. We have added the confirmed quarter 1 pupil premium allocations for 2025 to 2026

  2. We have made updated the text in the last 2 paragraphs of section 2.3 in the technical note to clarify how the 2 allocations across the year inform payments. In section 6 of the technical note, we have added content on school mergers and also added 2 subheadings (鈥6.1 Closures and openings鈥 and 鈥6.2 Academy conversions鈥) to be clearer in the section.

  3. We have published the initial pupil premium grant allocations for the financial year 2025 to 2026.

  4. First published.

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