Pupil Equity Funding: school allocations 2021 to 2022
1st May 2020
Funding allocated directly to schools not via councils by the Scottish Government to help close the poverty related attainment gap.
The amounts to schools was announced today.
The total for Highland is
Highland £4,179,892
In Caithness
Bower Primary - Nil
Canisbay Primary - £8,821
Castletown Primary - £17,643
Crossroads Primary - Nil
Dunbeath Primary - Nil
Halkirk Primary - £18,378
Keiss Primary - Nil
Lybster Primary - £17,643
Miller Academy Primary - £42,882
Mount Pleasant Primary - £50,233
Newton Park Primary - £102,917
Noss Primary - £99,241
Pennyland Primary - £39,206
Reay Primary - Nil
Thrumster - Nil
Watten Primary Nil
To see the amounts for all the Scottish Schools go to
https://www.gov.scot/publications/pupil-equity-funding-school-allocations-2021-to-2022/
What is this funding?
Pupil attainment: closing the gap
Scottish Attainment Challenge
The Scottish Attainment Challenge is about achieving equity in education. This can be achieved by ensuring every child has the same opportunity to succeed, with a particular focus on closing the poverty-related attainment gap.
The Scottish Attainment Challenge was launched by the First Minister in February 2015. It is underpinned by The National Improvement Framework, Curriculum for Excellence and Getting it Right for Every Child.
It focuses on improvement activity in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing in specific areas of Scotland. It will also support and complement the broader range of initiatives and programmes to ensure that all of Scotland's children and young people reach their full potential.
The £750 million Attainment Scotland Fund is a targeted initiative focused on supporting pupils in the local authorities of Scotland with the highest concentrations of deprivation.
The nine 'Challenge Authorities' are Glasgow, Dundee, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, North Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. It initially focused on primary schools.
A number of primary and secondary schools outwith the Challenge Authorities, with significant proportions of their pupils living in deprived areas are also benefiting. These schools have been identified on the basis of supporting a significant proportion of pupils and families from communities which are facing some of the greatest challenges. Many of these schools are already doing well for all of their pupils and we want to learn from and spread this practice.
Pupil Equity Funding (PEF)
The Pupil Equity Funding is being provided as part of the £750 million Attainment Scotland Fund which will be invested over the current parliamentary term (2016 to 2021).
The Pupil Equity Funding is allocated directly to schools and targeted at closing the poverty related attainment gap.
Every council area is benefitting from Pupil Equity Funding and 95% of schools in Scotland have been allocated funding for pupils in P1-S3 known to be eligible for free school meals.
This funding is to be spent at the discretion of the head-teacher working in partnership with each other and their local authority. Schools will now have their plans in place for using their funding and will be implementing those plans.