St Bede's Catholic Infant School
This is the financial benchmarking and insights summary for your school. It captures highlights of your school's spending compared with a number of similar schools (see below).
This summary uses financial data from the Consistent Financial Reporting return and staffing data from the School Workforce Census for 2024 - 2025.
This summary is intended for school leadership and governance teams, with the intention of stimulating discussion on where resources may be used more effectively.
It is highly recommended that you use the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool to carry out more in-depth benchmarking for your school.
Key information about your school
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In year balance
-£313,362
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Revenue reserve
£14,759
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School phase
Primary
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Your spend in priority areas for all schools
Your school's spend compared against similar schools in the three areas in which schools in England spend the most money.
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Teaching and Teaching support staff
Non-educational support staff
Administrative supplies
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Other top spending priorities for your school
Your school's top three priority areas in other spend categories, based on the variance of your school's spend against similar schools.
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Catering staff and supplies
Educational ICT
Utilities
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Pupil and workforce metrics
Pupil-to-teacher metric
8.62
Pupils per teacher
Similar schools range from 5 to 21.35 pupils per teacher.
Pupil-to-senior leadership role metric
31
Pupils per senior leadership role
Similar schools range from 14 to 134 pupils per senior leadership role.
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Next steps
We recommend you visit the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool to further explore your benchmarking data.
In Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool you can:
- See more in-depth charts and tables illustrating comparisons in operating models
- Choose and save a new set of schools to compare your school with, based on characteristics important to your establishment
- Model data within the tool* to assess the impact of anomalous spending in the reporting period
- Access commercial frameworks from DfE to help you find a better deal
- Create an integrated curriculum and financial plan (ICFP) to assist in creating the best curriculum for pupils with available funding.
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Who you are compared with
We have selected 2 sets of similar schools to benchmark your school with depending on the spend area in question.
Running cost categories i.e. those that relate to the educational operations of the school include staffing (excluding premises staff), ICT, consultancy and catering.
We chose these schools based on:
- school phase or type
- region
- number of pupils
- pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM)
- pupils with special educational needs (SEN), or proportion of various SEN provisions for special schools
Building cost categories i.e. those that relate to the upkeep of the school premises, such as utilities, cleaning and maintenance costs.
We choose these schools based on:
- school phase or type
- region
- gross internal floor area
- average age of buildings
- whether they are a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) school