The support packages available in the EIAs are: trust capacity funding connect the classroom programme to upgrade wifi networks in ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ schools that fall below our connectivity standards levelling up premiums , worth up to £3,000 tax-free to eligible teachers We are developing a MAT CEO programme which will build leadership capacity to support improvement in EIAs and other areas of need across the country. We will also take advantage of new powers to be more proactive in intervening in underperforming schools .

Department
for Education

Guidance

Education investment areas

Updated 7 June 2023

Applies to England

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The levelling up white paper identified 55 education investment areas (EIAs). These are the third of local authorities in England where educational outcomes were the weakest based on sustained low performance across key stage 2 and key stage 4 in 2017 to 2019. They include previous opportunity areas.

Education investment areas: selection methodology explains how the EIAs were chosen.

The DfE is prioritising a package of activity in EIAs to support our aims, set out in the schools white paper, for EIAs to achieve the fastest progress until 2030 by:

helping 90% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at key stage 2, with an increase of over a third in the lowest performing areas
increasing the GCSE average grade at key stage 4 in English language and maths from 4.5 to 5