National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2026 to 2027
Tables showing provisional national funding formulae (NFF) allocations for the schools and central school services blocks from 2026 to 2027.
Applies to England
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These tables are mainly for schools and local authorities. They cover the schools and central school services national funding formulae (NFF) allocations for 2026 to 2027.
The ‘NFF summary table’ sets out the combined effect of the schools and central school services formulae at local authority level.
The ‘Impact of the schools NFF’ sets out notional school-level allocations for 2026 to 2027. But as local authorities continue to distribute funding to schools in their area, schools’ actual funding may be different to the amounts shown in these tables.
The ‘Impact of the central school services block NFF’ sets out local authority provisional central school services allocations for 2026 to 2027 and how we calculated them.
The technical notes explain how we calculated the local authority and school level allocations under the formulae.
Schools and local authorities can find the detailed calculations behind their notional schools block allocations. These are on the COLLECT system. The supplementary guidance explains how to access COLLECT.
High needs allocations are included in the Dedicated Schools Grant. The Dedicated Schools Grant technical note explains how these allocations have been calculated.
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Updates to this page
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Updated to include a link to the national funding formula for high needs allocations in the Dedicated Schools Grant publication.
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Added 'National funding formula notional allocations: supplementary guidance'.
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First published.