England's Per-Pupil Funding Formula

England's Per-Pupil Funding Formula has led to a 9% real-terms cut in per-student spending since 2010, forcing 78% of schools to reduce teaching assistant hours. This ranks as the second-worst model globally, yet it is 30% less inequitable than #1's property-tax approach when measured by funding variance between regions. Current allocations fail to account for rising costs: school leaders report spending £400 per pupil annually on basic supplies that parents cannot afford. The formula's lack of an inflation adjustment guarantees that spending per student will continue to drop, with projected cuts reaching 13% by 2027.