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1. Step 1

   • Publication: LA and school expenditure

2. Step 2

   • Data set: School revenue reserves - unrounded data

3. Step 3

   • National:
     • England

4. Step 4

   • Time period: 2021-22

5. Step 5

   • Indicators:
     • Average revenue balance per school
     • Committed revenue balances (B01)
     • Community-focused school revenue balances (B06)
     • Devolved formula capital balance (B03)
     • Number of schools making a Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) return
   • Phase of school:
     • All LA maintained schools
     • Nursery
     • PRU
     • Primary
     • Secondary

6. Step 6 Explore data

   This data is not from the latest release

   View latest data: Financial year 2022-23

   'School revenue reserves - unrounded data' for All LA maintained schools, Nursery, PRU, Primary, Secondary and 1 other filter in England for 2021-22

   	2021-22
   	Nursery	Primary	Secondary	PRU	Special	All LA maintained schools
   Number of schools making a Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) return	381	10,335	727	185	593	12,221
   Committed revenue balances (B01)	£11,954,752	£709,453,725	£245,500,428	£18,621,110	£113,416,820	£1,098,946,834
   Uncommitted revenue balances (B02)	£10,381,945	£765,159,946	£144,536,484	£22,990,233	£106,511,735	£1,049,580,344
   Devolved formula capital balance (B03)	£3,953,824	£93,830,666	£12,926,908	£2,264,056	£11,949,502	£124,924,956
   Other capital balances (B05)	£547,411	£15,232,264	£23,423,755	£149,958	£4,086,231	£43,439,619
   Community-focused school revenue balances (B06)	-£785,453	£31,068,300	£1,578,346	-£71,648	£1,130,140	£32,919,686
   Outstanding balance of capital loans to schol (B07)	£6,947	£6,937,474	£12,377,989	£0	£2,417,630	£21,740,041
   Total revenue balance	£21,551,244	£1,505,681,972	£391,615,258	£41,539,695	£221,058,695	£2,181,446,864
   Average revenue balance per school	£56,565	£145,688	£538,673	£224,539	£372,780	£178,500
   Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	7.8%	9.3%	7.7%	10.9%	10.4%	9.1%
   Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	267	9,507	628	147	528	11,077
   Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	70.1%	92.0%	86.4%	79.5%	89.0%	90.6%
   Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus	£37,699,693	£1,576,575,143	£473,100,482	£48,130,255	£244,564,397	£2,380,069,970
   Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	113	783	94	27	58	1,075
   Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	29.7%	7.6%	12.9%	14.6%	9.8%	8.8%
   Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit	-£16,148,448	-£70,893,171	-£81,485,224	-£6,590,560	-£23,505,702	-£198,623,106
   Opening pupil-focused revenue balance (OB01)	£27,697,925	£1,476,535,804	£267,964,410	£33,215,605	£186,332,604	£1,991,746,347
   Opening community-focused revenue balance (OB02)	-£1,494,828	£26,171,021	£1,356,852	-£25,330	£1,090,189	£27,097,904
   Opening capital balance (OB03)	£4,480,530	£111,802,679	£39,663,418	£2,535,010	£15,608,415	£174,090,051
   Total income	£275,955,223	£16,186,908,516	£5,118,086,319	£381,193,939	£2,133,508,780	£24,095,652,777

   Footnotes

   1. There are a small number of local authorities with no LA maintained secondary schools, all are academies. Thurrock returned no data from primary schools in 2021-22. There are also authorities returning no nursery schools, pupil referral units or special schools. Full details are in the methodology document. These local authorities will be uncoloured in the maps above.
   2. Includes schools making a part year return as they converted to academies part way through the financial year

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   • Publication: LA and school expenditure, Financial year 2022-23

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