Schools National Funding Formula Consultation: York Council's 2018-19 Proposals

City of York Council's proposals for a revised local school funding formula, following consultation with the York Schools Forum. The data includes four tables detailing provisional and illustrative funding allocations for mainstream maintained and academy schools in York for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 financial years. The dataset was published by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Modeling school budget impacts based on the proposed York funding formula.
• Comparing provisional funding allocations for 2018/19 with illustrative allocations for 2019/20.
• Analyzing the base data used in the funding formula modeling described in the consultation.
• Assessing funding changes for schools at the proposed full target level.

Strengths

• Includes four distinct tables for different allocation scenarios and base data.
• Focuses on a specific local authority (York) with a defined timeframe (from April 2018).
• Published under the Open Government Licence, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Proposals and calculations by City of York Council, following consultation with the York Schools Forum.

Time Range

2018/19 and 2019/20 financial years.

Freshness

Data relates to the 2018/19 and 2019/20 financial years; last updated date is unknown.

Geography

City of York, United Kingdom.