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Guidance

Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2025 to 2026

Find out how much local authorities receive for DSG funding in the 2025 to 2026 financial year and how it is calculated.

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published
18 December 2024
Last updated
2422 NovemberJuly 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

DSG: conditions of grant 2025 to 2026

HTML

DSG: technical note 2025 to 2026

HTML

DSG: published allocations 2025 to 2026

https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/view-latest-funding

DSG: growth and falling rolls calculation values 2025 to 2026

ODS, 3.21 MB

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DSG: pupil number tool 2025 to 2026 (July 2025)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 308 KB

DSG: pupil number tool 2025 to 2026 (December 2024)

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 301 KB

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Details

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.

Dedicated school grant (DSG)(DSG) allocations for the 2025 to 2026 financial year

We’ve updated the 2025 to 2026 dedicated schools grant (DSG)(DSG) funding allocations. to reflect recoupment and high needs deductions.deductions for academies and early years block update.

About the DSG

Read the DSG conditions of grant to find out more about how the grant should be used.

Read the technical note to understand how we calculate the DSG allocations.

The DSG growth and falling rolls calculations values tables give details of the 2025 to 2026 financial year growth and falling rolls calculation, which forms part of the schools block in the DSG allocations.

The pupil number tool shows how many pupils are allocated to each local authority.

Updates to this page

Published 18 December 2024
Last updated 2422 NovemberJuly 2025 + show all updates

  1. We have updated the DSG allocations on Manage your education and skills funding (MYESF) to reflect in-year recoupment and high needs deductions.

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Update history

2025-11-24 14:45
We have updated the DSG allocations on Manage your education and skills funding (MYESF) to reflect in-year recoupment and high needs deductions.

2025-07-22 11:26
We have updated the DSG allocations on MYESF to reflect recoupment and high needs deductions for academies and early years block update.

2025-03-31 16:28
We have updated the DSG allocations on MYESF to reflect recoupment and high needs deductions for academies as at 1 March 2025.

2024-12-18 10:23
First published.