How much councils pass on to schools

Heads now have more direct control over school budgets

The table below shows England's local education authorities ranked according to how much of their local schools budgets they are delegating to schools, from the most down to the least.

The columns show, from left to right:

• what percentage of each authority's Local Schools Budget is being delegated to schools this year
• the amount delegated, in £ per pupil
• the amount retained per pupil by the LEA for core administration, including the costs of the chief education officer and the education committee, and various planning and regulatory functions.

Note: There are 150 local education authorities. The figures supplied by the Department for Education exclude the City of London and the Isles of Scilly because they are so small. They are, however, included in the England averages shown in the table.

Local education authority	% of LSB	Funding £	Admin £
England Averages	84.2%	2,373	47
Southend-on-Sea	89.8%	2,587	43
Brent	88.0%	2,823	53
Lincolnshire	87.9%	2,279	21
Birmingham	87.4%	2,718	59
Wigan	87.3%	2,349	49
Northamptonshire	87.2%	2,320	37
Havering	87.1%	2,454	50
Hillingdon	87.1%	2,557	41
Rotherham	87.0%	2,367	49
Halton	86.7%	2,473	54
Slough	86.7%	2,644	52
Kirklees	86.7%	2,358	47
Barnet	86.7%	2,635	56
Redcar and Cleveland	86.6%	2,285	59
West Berkshire	86.5%	2,376	48
Tower Hamlets	86.5%	3,595	66
Warrington	86.4%	2,219	33
Liverpool	86.4%	2,631	54
Sefton	86.4%	2,399	39
Portsmouth	86.3%	2,547	61
Lewisham	86.3%	3,098	61
Leeds	86.2%	2,369	51
Newcastle upon Tyne	86.2%	2,408	61
Oldham	86.2%	2,409	38
Southampton	86.1%	2,502	57
Nottinghamshire	86.0%	2,254	41
Peterborough	86.0%	2,474	54
Dudley	86.0%	2,255	40
Salford	86.0%	2,511	45
Solihull	86.0%	2,164	56
Poole	85.9%	2,283	48
Stoke-on-Trent	85.9%	2,246	46
Walsall	85.9%	2,300	33
Hammersmith and Fulham	85.9%	3,239	58
Redbridge	85.9%	2,512	73
Swindon	85.8%	2,233	40
Stockton-on-Tees	85.7%	2,352	49
Cumbria	85.6%	2,336	33
Derbyshire	85.5%	2,170	41
Hampshire	85.5%	2,280	37
Sunderland	85.5%	2,271	41
Suffolk	85.4%	2,325	39
Warwickshire	85.3%	2,266	33
North East Lincolnshire	85.3%	2,377	49
City of Bristol	85.2%	2,532	41
Southwark	85.2%	3,183	65
Bedfordshire	85.0%	2,354	36
Norfolk	85.0%	2,305	39
Bournemouth	85.0%	2,354	51
Staffordshire	84.9%	2,120	37
Croydon	84.9%	2,561	59
Somerset	84.8%	2,272	62
Sutton	84.8%	2,466	63
Hertfordshire	84.7%	2,338	28
Medway	84.7%	2,360	52
Oxfordshire	84.6%	2,286	29
Bury	84.6%	2,169	55
Tameside	84.6%	2,218	47
Luton	84.5%	2,510	50
Middlesbrough	84.5%	2,361	48
Cheshire	84.4%	2,239	33
Essex	84.4%	2,371	27
Rutland	84.4%	2,401	55
Hounslow	84.4%	2,667	70
Hartlepool	84.3%	2,251	63
Reading	84.3%	2,420	46
York	84.3%	2,256	52
Kingston upon Thames	84.3%	2,386	44
Gloucestershire	84.2%	2,181	37
Leicestershire	84.2%	2,186	47
Bath & North East Somerset	84.2%	2,373	56
Bolton	84.2%	2,258	38
Telford & Wrekin	84.1%	2,284	40
Wokingham	84.1%	2,282	59
Calderdale	84.1%	2,238	59
Greenwich	84.1%	3,114	63
Waltham Forest	84.1%	2,896	51
St. Helens	84.0%	2,275	60
Sheffield	83.9%	2,318	42
Bexley	83.9%	2,265	59
North Yorkshire	83.8%	2,339	33
Surrey	83.8%	2,294	58
Wiltshire	83.8%	2,185	32
Nottingham	83.8%	2,541	51
Plymouth	83.8%	2,331	46
Thurrock	83.8%	2,390	56
Coventry	83.8%	2,445	46
Wolverhampton	83.8%	2,389	52
Windsor and Maidenhead	83.7%	2,386	63
Bradford	83.7%	2,363	31
Rochdale	83.7%	2,216	53
Milton Keynes	83.6%	2,285	47
Shropshire	83.5%	2,197	37
Enfield	83.5%	2,602	48
West Sussex	83.4%	2,293	49
Gateshead	83.4%	2,311	52
Hackney	83.4%	3,283	61
Wandsworth	83.4%	3,080	73
South Tyneside	83.3%	2,250	57
Bromley	83.3%	2,333	60
Kent	83.2%	2,339	43
Worcestershire	83.2%	2,167	51
Sandwell	83.2%	2,339	54
Newham	83.2%	2,678	52
City of Kingston Upon Hull	83.1%	2,340	43
Isle of Wight	83.1%	2,435	39
Trafford	83.1%	2,220	39
Harrow	83.1%	2,555	73
Derby	83.0%	2,242	44
Doncaster	83.0%	2,298	47
South Gloucestershire	82.8%	2,190	51
Knowsley	82.8%	2,462	63
Wirral	82.8%	2,279	45
Merton	82.8%	2,546	60
Stockport	82.7%	2,140	29
Blackburn with Darwen	82.6%	2,469	56
Darlington	82.6%	2,149	37
East Riding of Yorkshire	82.5%	2,242	55
Barking and Dagenham	82.5%	2,587	65
Durham	82.3%	2,278	38
Bracknell Forest	82.3%	2,236	63
North Somerset	82.3%	2,171	53
Barnsley	82.3%	2,158	34
Wakefield	82.3%	2,169	30
Islington	82.2%	3,055	73
East Sussex	81.9%	2,337	62
North Tyneside	81.9%	2,192	50
Ealing	81.9%	2,616	47
Kensington and Chelsea	81.9%	3,554	67
Manchester	81.8%	2,625	53
Cambridgeshire	81.7%	2,141	44
North Lincolnshire	81.7%	2,261	54
Blackpool	81.5%	2,220	50
Torbay	81.5%	2,232	53
Lancashire	81.4%	2,235	35
Lambeth	81.4%	3,219	73
Richmond upon Thames	81.4%	2,377	67
Northumberland	81.3%	2,177	65
Herefordshire	81.2%	2,192	51
Haringey	81.2%	2,892	73
Camden	81.1%	3,323	66
Brighton and Hove	81.0%	2,352	58
Westminster	81.0%	3,288	59
Leicester	80.6%	2,338	57
Buckinghamshire	80.5%	2,143	41
Devon	80.5%	2,146	52
Dorset	80.2%	2,177	43
Cornwall	79.8%	2,141	46
England Averages	84.2%	2,373	47