SCHEDULE 3ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, OR FACTORS OR CRITERIA WHICH MAY BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, IN A LOCAL AUTHORITY’S FORMULA UNDER REGULATION 20
PART 1Applicable only to budget shares for maintained schools
14.—(1) In respect of all primary schools to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, other than those which are middle schools or all-through schools, an amount calculated in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (4).
(2) This sub-paragraph applies where—
(a)in respect of those pupils for whom the school is their home school, the mean of the distances between each pupil’s home and their second closest school is more than or equal to a distance determined by the local authority of at least two miles and the same distance must be applied to all such schools; and
(b)the average size of a year group at the school (derived by dividing the number of pupils by the number of year groups) is less than a number determined by the local authority as applying to all such schools, which must be no more than 21.4.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the amount is either—
(a)a single sum of up to £100,000, and each school must be allocated the same sum, or
A is a sum of up to £100,000, and the same sum must be used in the calculation for each school;
B is the number of pupils in the school; and
C is the number determined by the authority in sub-paragraph (2)(b).
(4) The authority must use the same method of calculating the amount under sub-paragraph (3) in respect of all schools to which sub-paragraph (2) applies.