The Stephen Longfellow Academy
Free schools alternative provision school in Leeds (Leeds).
Income and spending
Financial year: 2023/24 (the year label used by DfE; these totals equal the DfE return for that year). Academy trust accounts return (AAR), academy financial year (this school is an academy). 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 (2024/25). 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 | £3.34m | 78% |
| Admin staff | £376k | 9% |
| Learning resources | £140k | 3% |
| Energy | £137k | 3% |
| ICT | £11k | 0% |
| Premises maintenance | £30k | 1% |
| Other spending not itemised here | £256k | 6% |
| Total spending | £4.29m | 100% |
- Staff costs as a share of spending
- 87% (teaching plus admin staff, the two staff lines in the data)
- Per pupil, non-staff costs
- £574,000 (spend per pupil (DfE, 2023/24), less the share spent on teaching and admin staff)
Same return and year as above (financial year 2023/24). 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.
Finance in 2024/25
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| Spending per pupil | £23,691 |
| Teaching staff, share of spending | 57.1% |
| All staff costs, share of spending | 85.6% |
| Premises, share of spending | 4.5% |
| Non-staff spending per pupil | £3,419 |
Financial year 2024/25. Academies Accounts Return (AAR), academy financial year. No England mean is shown for this type of school: the published groups mix different kinds of provision, so a mean would not compare like with like. Shares are percentages of total spending. For pupil referral units and alternative provision the pupil numbers behind "per pupil" figures are headcounts of all pupils registered during the year, not full-time equivalents, so these figures are not like for like with other schools. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | £3.96m | £4.53m | -£565k | £23,691 |
| 2023/24 | £3.3m | £4.29m | -£996k | £4,293,000 |
| 2022/23 | £2.99m | £3.96m | -£964k | - |
| 2021/22 | £2.42m | £3.42m | -£1.01m | £24,443 |
| 2020/21 | £2.75m | £3.17m | -£427k | £21,309 |
Academies Accounts Return (AAR), academy financial year. "Income less spending" is income minus spending (a negative figure means spending was higher than income). No England mean is shown for this type of school. 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.