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1. Step 1

   • Publication: LA and school expenditure

2. Step 2

   • Data set: LA maintained schools, revenue reserves, (National, Regional, LA levels) (£million)

3. Step 3

   • National:
     • England

4. Step 4

   • Time period: 2015-16 to 2020-21

5. Step 5

   • Indicators:
     • Average revenue balance per school
     • Number of schools with a negative revenue balance
     • Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance
     • Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)
     • Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance
   • Phase of education:
     • 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

   'LA maintained schools, revenue reserves, (National, Regional, LA levels) (£million)' for All LA maintained schools, Nursery, PRU, Primary, Secondary and 1 other filter in England between 2015-16 and 2020-21

   		2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21
   Nursery	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	351	328	314	321	304	287
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	87.3	81.6	79.7	81.7	79.2	75.1
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	51	73	80	69	80	94
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	12.7	18.2	20.3	17.6	20.8	24.6
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	37.0	33.0	33.6	36.5	36.3	38.5
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-2.6	-3.8	-4.9	-6.7	-8.8	-12.2
   	Average revenue balance per school	85,373	72,672	73,032	75,728	71,621	68,738
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	12.1	10.4	10.2	10.4	9.6	9.6
   Primary	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	13,287	12,461	11,495	10,729	9,883	9,929
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	94.7	92.2	90.8	91.3	89.1	92.9
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	627	954	1,019	927	1,145	711
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	4.5	7.1	8.1	7.9	10.3	6.7
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	1,545.3	1,349.4	1,302.9	1,291.6	1,223.1	1,596.4
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-23.2	-42.1	-50.9	-52.2	-74.1	-63.6
   	Average revenue balance per school	108,529	96,753	98,924	105,488	103,539	143,432
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	8.4	7.4	7.4	7.7	7.2	9.6
   PRU	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	229	196	176	172	153	150
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	80.9	75.1	72.4	78.2	73.6	77.7
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	33	47	47	35	43	33
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	11.7	18.0	19.3	15.9	20.7	17.1
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	43.1	39.4	36.5	34.0	31.3	39.6
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-2.6	-5.8	-9.7	-6.2	-8.3	-6.2
   	Average revenue balance per school	142,843	128,738	110,218	126,282	110,737	173,298
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	9.5	8.0	6.7	7.1	6.0	8.9
   Secondary	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	1,008	830	705	645	601	629
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	80.8	71.7	68.0	70.4	72.8	80.8
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	222	304	313	260	221	147
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	17.8	26.3	30.2	28.4	26.8	18.9
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	394.8	309.7	260.9	253.1	275.2	378.9
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-82.5	-126.4	-151.4	-147.9	-150.2	-127.9
   	Average revenue balance per school	250,419	158,420	105,593	114,935	151,343	322,615
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	4.6	2.9	1.9	2.0	2.5	4.9
   Special	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	746	683	646	592	552	536
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	91.4	88.2	89.5	87.1	86.0	87.0
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	67	83	73	85	86	74
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	8.2	10.7	10.1	12.5	13.4	12.0
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	186.6	162.2	160.1	159.8	156.9	215.0
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-8.9	-13.5	-16.5	-20.3	-25.0	-27.5
   	Average revenue balance per school	217,756	192,106	199,025	205,056	205,390	304,433
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	8.9	7.5	7.4	7.3	6.7	9.2
   All LA maintained schools	Number of schools with a surplus revenue balance	15,621	14,498	13,336	12,459	11,493	11,531
   	Percentage of schools with a surplus revenue balance	93.1	90.0	88.6	89.3	87.3	91.1
   	Number of schools with a negative revenue balance	1,000	1,461	1,532	1,376	1,575	1,059
   	Percentage of schools with a negative revenue balance (deficit)	6.0	9.1	10.2	9.9	12.0	8.4
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a surplus (£ million)	2,206.7	1,893.7	1,794.0	1,775.0	1,722.9	2,268.4
   	Total revenue balance of schools with a deficit (£ million)	-119.9	-191.7	-233.3	-233.3	-266.4	-237.4
   	Average revenue balance per school	124,415	105,683	103,690	110,448	110,692	160,486
   	Revenue balance as a percentage of total income	7.5	6.4	6.2	6.4	6.1	8.5

   Footnotes

   1. There are a small number of local authorities with no LA maintained secondary schools, all are academies.
   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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