Average cost of school funding

​​Request 714269400

Please provide a value for the average cost of the following (exclude GoJ fee-paying schools and non GoJ fee-paying schools)

1 - Educating a pupil at a GoJ primary school 

a) in Key Stage 1 

b) in Key Stage 2 

2 - Educating a pupil at a GoJ Secondary school 

a) in Key Stage 3 

b) in Key Stage 4

c) in Key Stage 5

For both 1 and 2 provide: 

- The average

- The average calculated on base funding only

- The average calculated including SEND and LPA funding

For all exclude Jersey Premium

Response

The department have determined that to provide a value for the average cost of Educating a pupil at a GoJ primary or secondary school as requested, would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information. A Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) is not required to manipulate and create new data sets in response to a Freedom of Information request therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

Information regarding the Funding Formula for Schools can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Education/Jersey%20Funding%20Formula%20for%20Schools%20Report%202025.pdf​

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​