KEY INFORMATION
Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a grant given to schools to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers, and to support students with parents in the armed forces.
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This is based on research showing that students from low income families perform less well at school than their peers. Often, students who are entitled to pupil premium face challenges such as poor language and communication skills, lack of confidence and issues with attendance and punctuality. The pupil premium is intended to help to narrow the gap between them and other students.
Further Information
From 1 April 2018, free school meals in all West Sussex maintained and free schools and academies are available to pupils in receipt of, or whose parents are in receipt of, one or more of the following benefits:
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> Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
> Income Support
> Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
> Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
> Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
> The guaranteed element of state Pension Credit
> Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more £16,190)
> Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.
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A number of pupils will also be protected against losing their current free school meals. You can find more information on GOV.UK.
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Schools are given a pupil premium for:
> Students who have qualified for free school meals at any point in the past six years. The school receives £1.050 for each of these students in 2024-2025.
> Students who are or have been looked after under local authority care for more than one day. These students are awarded a premium of £2,570 in 2024-2025
> Students from service families who receive a child pension from the Ministry of Defence. They are awarded £340 (in 2024-25).