Guidance

Teachers' pay grant (TPG) September 2022 to March 2023 allocations: data sources

Updated 31 October 2022

Applies to England

1. Allocations

The allocation spreadsheet shows:

  • school level allocations for mainstream schools, this shows the pupil numbers used to generate the total allocation for each school

  • school level allocations for non-maintained special schools (NMSS), which are paid directly by ESFA to NMSSs

2. Data sources

For 2 to 4 year olds in mainstream schools, we have used the headcount of children in funded early years places. Allocations will be based on the January 2022 school census.

For pupils in mainstream schools aged 5 to 16, we have used the headcount of pupils, from the October 2021 census, to ascertain which schools were funded on the minimum 100 pupils in their core funding.

In the April to August 2022 allocations, we incorrectly used October 2020 census data to ascertain which schools were funded on the minimum. The October 2022 allocations include a retrospective adjustment to correct for those schools which were underfunded as a result.

The October 2022 allocations include retrospective adjustments to the April to August 2022 allocations for post-16 institutions which have seen an increase in pupil numbers.

For pupils in mainstream schools aged 16 to 19, we used the pupil numbers from the 2022 to 2023 academic year funding allocations. We have converted the data into full time equivalents (FTE) based on the number of hours each student attends the school, as shown below. Band 1 students are shown on an FTE basis in the funding allocations, so we have used this directly.

Band  Number of hours  FTE
725  1.208
6  625  1.042
540 to 600  1
450 to 539  0.825
360 to 449  0.675
2  280 to 359  0.533

Most of the high needs funding for the TPG and TPECG has now been rolled into the high needs NFF (see the methodology pages). We have used the published place numbers for academies for academic year 2022 to 2023 for non-maintained special schools.