Pupil premium strategy statement: what to publish on your school website
If your school receives pupil premium, your website needs this year's strategy statement in the DfE template, showing how you spend it and the difference it makes.
Check this on my websiteWho it applies to
- Published on
- The school's own website
- School type
- Academies and maintained schools
- School stage
- All stages, from early years to sixth form
- Only applies to
- Schools receiving pupil premium
- Does not apply to
- Nursery schools and sixth-form only providers
When it's due
By 31 December each year
For the current academic year. A strategy covering several years is fine if it's updated each year.
What's needed
Publish this year's pupil premium strategy statement in the DfE template on the statutory information page on your website by 31 December, and replace it each academic year.
What it must contain
5 parts- Publishes a pupil premium strategy statement each academic year using the DfE templateMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Says how the school is spending its pupil premium fundingMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- States the education outcomes being achieved for disadvantaged pupilsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Sets out how pupil premium is being spent this academic yearMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Reports the impact of pupil premium spending in the previous academic yearMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
What the official sources say
Set out in 4 official sources:
What maintained schools must publish online
Schools that receive pupil premium funding must publish a strategy statement on their school website by 31 December each year. It must explain: – how the school’s pupil premium funding is being spent – the education outcomes being achieved for disadvantaged pupils
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What schools must publish
Schools must publish the statement in the DfE template provided on the pupil premium guidance page .
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What schools must publish
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DfE recommends that schools plan their pupil premium spending over 3 years. If they do so, they must still update their statement annually to reflect: – their spending activity for the current academic year – the impact of pupil premium in the previous academic year
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What schools must publish
What academies must publish online
Academies that receive pupil premium funding must publish a strategy statement on their school website by 31 December each year. It must explain: – how the academy is spending its pupil premium funding – the education outcomes which disadvantaged pupils are achieving
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What academies must publish
Academies must publish their statement in the DfE template provided on the pupil premium guidance page.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What academies must publish
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DfE recommends that academies plan their pupil premium spending over 3 years. If they do so, they must still update their statement annually to reflect: – their spending activity for the current academic year – the impact of pupil premium in the previous academic year
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Pupil premium > What academies must publish
Pupil premium: conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year
Schools whose PP grant allocation for the 2026 to 2027 financial year is based on more than 5 eligible pupils (not including pupils that are eligible only for SPP ) are required to publish an updated PP strategy statement annually.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ 5.2.1 School records
All individual schools that are required to publish a strategy statement for the academic year 2026 to 2027 must do so by 31 December 2026, using the PP strategy template.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ 5.2.1 School records
Pupil premium: overview (strategy statement requirement)
– by publishing a statement on their website each academic year using the DfE template
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Accountability
Questions schools ask
Do schools have to publish a pupil premium strategy statement?
Academies and maintained schools must. It only applies to schools receiving pupil premium.
What does a pupil premium strategy statement need to include?
Publishes a pupil premium strategy statement each academic year using the DfE template; Says how the school is spending its pupil premium funding; States the education outcomes being achieved for disadvantaged pupils; Sets out how pupil premium is being spent this academic year; Reports the impact of pupil premium spending in the previous academic year.
When does the pupil premium strategy statement need to be published?
By 31 December each year. For the current academic year. A strategy covering several years is fine if it's updated each year.
Where does the requirement for the pupil premium strategy statement come from?
It is set out in What maintained schools must publish online, What academies must publish online, Pupil premium: conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year and Pupil premium: overview (strategy statement requirement).
Recent changes to the official guidance
Updates to the official sources that affect this requirement, newest first.
27 March 2026 · Pupil premium: conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year
The DfE published the pupil premium conditions of grant for the 2026 to 2027 financial year.
24 October 2024 · What academies must publish online
The DfE changed the pupil premium section of its list for academies.
24 October 2024 · What maintained schools must publish online
The DfE changed the pupil premium section of its list for maintained schools.
30 September 2024 · Pupil premium: overview (strategy statement requirement)
Updated the attachments 'Pupil premium strategy statement template', 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (primary)', 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (secondary)', and 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (special)' for the academic year 2024 to 2025. Removed references to the recovery premium which ended in 2023 to 2024.
25 October 2023 · Pupil premium: overview (strategy statement requirement)
Updated the 'Pupil premium strategy statement template', 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (primary)', 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (secondary)' and 'Example pupil premium strategy statement (special)' to update the content in the Outcomes sections and reflect the information schools can publish about pupil outcomes in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
27 October 2022 · Pupil premium: overview (strategy statement requirement)
'Use of the pupil premium' section has been updated to reference the menu of approaches and the 'Service pupil premium' section has been updated to correct inaccuracies in 'Pupil premium: overview'. 'Pupil premium strategy statement template' and 3 example statements have been updated.
Plus 1 earlier changes.
We last checked these sources on 21 September 2026.
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