Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is finance given to schools with the specific aim of improving the outcomes of young people from less advantaged backgrounds. Nationally, there is a significant difference in the educational achievement of pupils who receive or have received Free School Meals than those who do not, for instance. The same is true of children who are in the care of Local Authorities.
Most of these pupils do make expected or more than expected progress at Hartford Church of England High School but the Pupil Premium is the mechanism for distributing the funding at a national level.