Schools are facing increasing financial pressures, however, alongside structural
issues with funding. The structural funding issues are apparent in (some but not all)
special schools, nursery schools, and smaller mainstream schools with falling rolls.
There are also some local financial management issues in certain schools. As a
result, for 2024-25 we have 13 schools at this stage indicating they need to set a
deficit budget in excess of the £500k or 5% thresholds set out above. These are:
School Name
Forecast 24/25
Deficit
(including
Community
Focussed
Activities)
Planned
Deficit as
% of
Budget
Colleges Nursery School -£123,719 -23.2%
Huntingdon Nursery School -£208,131 -37.0%
The Fields Early Years Centre -£198,937 -45.9%
Gt & Lt Shelford Primary School -£85,326 -8.8%
Hauxton Primary School -£85,606 -15.8%
Linton Infant School -£132,038 -17.4%
Lionel Walden Primary School -£216,637 -21.3%
Meridian Primary School -£73,609 -7.5%
Queen Emma Primary School -£536,538 -29.0%
St Anne's Primary School -£79,183 -8.1%
Wheatfields Primary School -£212,358 -15.0%
Castle Special School -£791,032 -14.9%
Samuel Pepys Special School -£155,825 -5.7%