Council Education Spending in EnglandLocal Authorities Ranked

Name: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing
Creator: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
License: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

All 287 local authorities in England, ranked by education services spending. Data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2026-27), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Rank	Local authority	Education services spending
1	Enfield	£335,936,000
2	Barnet	£325,596,000
3	Windsor and Maidenhead	£100,948,000
4	Birmingham	£9,036,000
5	Herefordshire	£5,246,000
6	Barking and Dagenham	£5,227,000
7	Hounslow	£5,096,000
8	Hackney	£4,892,000
9	Wokingham	£4,800,000
10	Westminster	£4,674,000
11	North Northamptonshire	£4,553,000
12	Sheffield	£4,429,000
13	Islington	£3,547,000
14	Portsmouth	£2,936,000
15	Bexley	£2,835,000
16	Bristol	£2,734,000
17	Redbridge	£2,668,000
18	Wolverhampton	£2,663,000
19	Wirral	£2,401,000
20	Somerset	£2,394,000
21	Southend-on-Sea	£2,365,000
22	York	£2,342,000
23	Doncaster	£2,336,000
24	Plymouth	£2,311,000
25	Bedford	£2,283,000
26	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£2,278,000
27	Swindon	£2,225,000
28	Southampton	£2,133,000
29	Cheshire East	£2,044,000
30	Oldham	£1,995,000
31	Ealing	£1,958,000
32	North Somerset	£1,907,000
33	Halton	£1,779,000
34	Medway	£1,733,000
35	Isle of Wight	£1,693,000
36	Bolton	£1,655,000
37	Hillingdon	£1,655,000
38	Reading	£1,623,000
39	Leeds	£1,573,000
40	Kingston upon Hull	£1,533,000
41	Bath and North East Somerset	£1,521,000
42	Havering	£1,499,000
43	Brighton and Hove	£1,394,000
44	Bracknell Forest	£1,390,000
45	Bury	£1,334,000
46	Manchester	£1,265,000
47	Sunderland	£1,238,000
48	Gateshead	£1,232,000
49	Westmorland and Furness	£1,176,000
50	Croydon	£1,151,000
51	Rutland	£1,082,000
52	Walsall	£1,058,000
53	Stoke-on-Trent	£1,048,000
54	Leicester	£1,037,000
55	North Tyneside	£950,000
56	Dorset	£945,000
57	North Lincolnshire	£935,000
58	Hammersmith and Fulham	£926,000
59	Bradford	£921,000
60	Nottingham	£881,000
61	Shropshire	£878,000
62	Calderdale	£854,000
63	North East Lincolnshire	£853,000
64	East Riding of Yorkshire	£841,000
65	Northumberland	£785,000
66	Rochdale	£750,000
67	Wandsworth	£749,000
68	Darlington	£657,000
69	Merton	£652,000
70	Newcastle upon Tyne	£650,000
71	Stockport	£629,000
72	Kingston upon Thames	£598,000
73	Buckinghamshire	£583,000
74	Central Bedfordshire	£574,000
75	Luton	£530,000
76	Brent	£508,000
77	Havant	£441,000
78	Sutton	£424,000
79	Wigan	£412,000
80	Watford	£403,000
81	Tameside	£382,000
82	Solihull	£363,000
83	Hartlepool	£357,000
84	Barnsley	£349,000
85	West Berkshire	£334,000
86	Cambridge	£330,000
87	Test Valley	£328,000
88	St. Helens	£307,000
89	Blackpool	£300,000
90	West Northamptonshire	£280,000
91	Derby	£279,000
92	Middlesbrough	£273,000
93	Basingstoke and Deane	£248,000
94	Newham	£207,000
95	Breckland	£197,000
96	Peterborough	£184,000
97	Slough	£154,000
98	Sandwell	£147,000
99	Sefton	£144,000
100	Isles of Scilly	£121,000
101	South Tyneside	£120,000
102	Milton Keynes	£117,000
103	Waltham Forest	£114,000
104	Kensington and Chelsea	£94,000
105	Ipswich	£85,000
106	New Forest	£73,000
107	Torbay	£73,000
108	Southwark	£64,000
109	City of London	£50,000
110	Thurrock	£48,000
111	Tonbridge and Malling	£43,000
112	Dover	£39,000
113	Telford and Wrekin	£39,000
114	Camden	£35,000
115	Chichester	£30,000
116	Wyre Forest	£30,000
117	East Hertfordshire	£27,000
118	Eastleigh	£25,000
119	Pendle	£20,000
120	Adur	£16,000
121	Worthing	£16,000
122	Redcar and Cleveland	£15,000
123	North Hertfordshire	£11,000
124	Maldon	£10,000
125	Stevenage	£9,000
126	Tewkesbury	£8,000
127	Exeter	£6,000
128	Braintree	£5,000
129	Stafford	£2,000
130	Amber Valley	£0
131	Arun	£0
132	Ashfield	£0
133	Ashford	£0
134	Babergh	£0
135	Basildon	£0
136	Bassetlaw	£0
137	Blaby	£0
138	Bolsover	£0
139	Boston	£0
140	Brentwood	£0
141	Broadland	£0
142	Bromsgrove	£0
143	Broxbourne	£0
144	Broxtowe	£0
145	Burnley	£0
146	Cannock Chase	£0
147	Canterbury	£0
148	Charnwood	£0
149	Chelmsford	£0
150	Cheltenham	£0
151	Cherwell	£0
152	Chesterfield	£0
153	Chorley	£0
154	Colchester	£0
155	Cotswold	£0
156	Crawley	£0
157	Dacorum	£0
158	Dartford	£0
159	East Cambridgeshire	£0
160	East Devon	£0
161	East Hampshire	£0
162	East Lindsey	£0
163	East Staffordshire	£0
164	East Suffolk	£0
165	Eastbourne	£0
166	Elmbridge	£0
167	Epsom and Ewell	£0
168	Erewash	£0
169	Fareham	£0
170	Fenland	£0
171	Folkestone and Hythe	£0
172	Forest of Dean	£0
173	Fylde	£0
174	Gedling	£0
175	Gloucester	£0
176	Gosport	£0
177	Gravesham	£0
178	Great Yarmouth	£0
179	Harborough	£0
180	Haringey	£0
181	Harlow	£0
182	Hart	£0
183	Hastings	£0
184	Hertsmere	£0
185	High Peak	£0
186	Hinckley and Bosworth	£0
187	Horsham	£0
188	Huntingdonshire	£0
189	Hyndburn	£0
190	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	£0
191	Lancaster	£0
192	Lewes	£0
193	Lichfield	£0
194	Lincoln	£0
195	Maidstone	£0
196	Malvern Hills	£0
197	Mansfield	£0
198	Melton	£0
199	Mid Devon	£0
200	Mid Suffolk	£0
201	Mid Sussex	£0
202	Mole Valley	£0
203	Newark and Sherwood	£0
204	Newcastle-under-Lyme	£0
205	North Devon	£0
206	North East Derbyshire	£0
207	North Kesteven	£0
208	North Norfolk	£0
209	North Warwickshire	£0
210	North West Leicestershire	£0
211	Norwich	£0
212	Nuneaton and Bedworth	£0
213	Oadby and Wigston	£0
214	Oxford	£0
215	Redditch	£0
216	Reigate and Banstead	£0
217	Ribble Valley	£0
218	Rochford	£0
219	Rossendale	£0
220	Rother	£0
221	Rotherham	£0
222	Rugby	£0
223	Runnymede	£0
224	Rushcliffe	£0
225	Rushmoor	£0
226	Salford	£0
227	Sevenoaks	£0
228	South Cambridgeshire	£0
229	South Derbyshire	£0
230	South Hams	£0
231	South Holland	£0
232	South Kesteven	£0
233	South Norfolk	£0
234	South Oxfordshire	£0
235	South Ribble	£0
236	South Staffordshire	£0
237	Spelthorne	£0
238	St Albans	£0
239	Staffordshire Moorlands	£0
240	Stratford-on-Avon	£0
241	Stroud	£0
242	Surrey Heath	£0
243	Swale	£0
244	Tamworth	£0
245	Tandridge	£0
246	Teignbridge	£0
247	Tendring	£0
248	Thanet	£0
249	Three Rivers	£0
250	Torridge	£0
251	Tunbridge Wells	£0
252	Uttlesford	£0
253	Vale of White Horse	£0
254	Waverley	£0
255	Wealden	£0
256	Welwyn Hatfield	£0
257	West Devon	£0
258	West Lancashire	£0
259	West Lindsey	£0
260	West Oxfordshire	£0
261	West Suffolk	£0
262	Winchester	£0
263	Woking	£0
264	Worcester	£0
265	Wychavon	£0
266	Wyre	£0
267	Derbyshire Dales	£-3,000
268	Stockton-on-Tees	£-50,000
269	Richmond upon Thames	£-96,000
270	Preston	£-105,000
271	Liverpool	£-137,000
272	Trafford	£-153,000
273	Wiltshire	£-179,000
274	Tower Hamlets	£-189,000
275	Blackburn with Darwen	£-327,000
276	Bromley	£-430,000
277	Lambeth	£-470,000
278	Lewisham	£-651,000
279	Wakefield	£-653,000
280	Harrow	£-711,000
281	Warrington	£-739,000
282	Knowsley	£-812,000
283	Cheshire West and Chester	£-879,000
284	North Yorkshire	£-1,578,000
285	County Durham	£-1,694,000
286	Kirklees	£-1,884,000
287	Cornwall	£-2,584,000