Earl Sterndale CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled primary school in Buxton (Derbyshire).
Income and spending
Financial year: 2024/25 (the year label used by DfE; these totals equal the DfE return for that year). Consistent Financial Reporting return (CFR), local authority financial year (maintained schools report this way). DfE schools financial benchmarking via WhatSchool. These are real income and spending totals from the return, not derived. The comparison card below uses the latest year held (2025/26). England means and the years of data held by DfE are in the cards below.
Where the money goes
| Spending line | Amount | Share of spending |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching and support staff | £265k | 64% |
| Admin staff | £35k | 9% |
| Learning resources | £17k | 4% |
| Energy | £10k | 2% |
| ICT | £5,603 | 1% |
| Premises maintenance | £31k | 7% |
| Other spending not itemised here | £51k | 12% |
| Total spending | £414k | 100% |
- Staff costs as a share of spending
- 72% (teaching plus admin staff, the two staff lines in the data)
- Per pupil, non-staff costs
- £3,945 (spend per pupil (DfE, 2024/25), less the share spent on teaching and admin staff)
Same return and year as above (financial year 2024/25). Shares are of total spending. The teaching and support staff line is the DfE teaching staff, supply teaching staff and education support staff lines added together, so in the same year it is usually larger than the "Teaching staff, share of spending" figure in the DfE comparison, which counts teaching staff only. The comparison card may be for a later year. "Other" is total spending less the lines listed (worked out by subtraction), so it can include catering, supply cover and other costs the source does not itemise. Premises is maintenance only, not rent or rates.
Compared with England, 2025/26
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| Measure | This school | England mean, primary schools | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spending per pupil | £13,319 | £8,282 | +£5,037 |
| Teaching staff, share of spending | 43.6% | 45.8% | -2.2 percentage points |
| All staff costs, share of spending | 74.9% | 75.8% | -0.9 percentage points |
| Premises, share of spending | 5.7% | 5.4% | +0.3 percentage points |
| Non-staff spending per pupil | £3,349 | £2,025 | +£1,324 |
Financial year 2025/26. Consistent Financial Reporting return (CFR), maintained schools. England mean: the simple average of 8,324 primary schools on the same basis and year, not weighted by pupil numbers. A school with a different mix of pupils, staff or buildings will spend differently, so a gap is not good or bad in itself. Shares are percentages of total spending. Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (FBIT), data downloads, Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) full data workbook, local authority maintained schools; Academies Accounts Return (AAR) benchmarking data, academies (Open Government Licence v3.0). Years use the labels in the publisher file names and tool (written yyyy/yy). CFR years are school financial years (April to March, so 2025/26 ends 31 March 2026). AAR years are academy accounting years ending 31 August (so 2024/25 is September 2024 to August 2025). The two bases are not the same period and are never mixed in one series.
Income and spending over the years
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| Financial year | Income | Spending | Income less spending | Spending per pupil | England mean per pupil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | £429k | £453k | -£24k | £13,319 | £8,282 |
| 2024/25 | £412k | £414k | -£2,510 | £14,292 | £7,772 |
| 2023/24 | £414k | £415k | -£1,136 | £13,845 | £7,171 |
| 2022/23 | £379k | £385k | -£6,777 | £11,677 | £6,702 |
| 2021/22 | £317k | £328k | -£11k | £10,588 | £6,182 |
Consistent Financial Reporting return (CFR), maintained schools. "Income less spending" is income minus spending (a negative figure means spending was higher than income). England mean per pupil: primary schools, same basis and year. Money is in the cash terms of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (FBIT), data downloads, Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) full data workbook, local authority maintained schools; Academies Accounts Return (AAR) benchmarking data, academies (Open Government Licence v3.0). Years use the labels in the publisher file names and tool (written yyyy/yy). CFR years are school financial years (April to March, so 2025/26 ends 31 March 2026). AAR years are academy accounting years ending 31 August (so 2024/25 is September 2024 to August 2025). The two bases are not the same period and are never mixed in one series.