Financial Benchmarking and Insights Summary 2023 - 2024:

Danetree Primary 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 Academies Accounts Return and staffing data from the School Workforce Census for 2023 - 2024.

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

  • In year balance

    £223,611

  • Revenue reserve

    £718,707

  • 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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Non-educational support staff

Medium priority £533 per pupil; higher than 40% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

Teaching and Teaching support staff

Medium priority £3,793 per pupil; less than 86.7% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

Administrative supplies

Low priority £56 per pupil; higher than 17.9% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

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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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Educational supplies

Medium priority £274 per pupil; higher than 76.7% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

Educational ICT

Medium priority £49 per pupil; higher than 62.1% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

Premises staff and services

Medium priority £48 per sq. metre; higher than 46.7% of similar schools.
Least spend Most spend

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Pupil and workforce metrics

Pupil-to-teacher metric

23.5

Pupils per teacher

Similar schools range from 17.07 to 31.33 pupils per teacher.

Pupil-to-senior leadership role metric

114.4

Pupils per senior leadership role

Similar schools range from 63.75 to 295.58 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