There is a banner outside Carswell School in Abingdon letting us know that schools in Oxfordshire face over £10M in real time cuts. That is compared with the budget in 2015/16 according to schoolcuts.org.uk. The vast majority of schools in Abingdon will be worse off according to their figures.

This has something to do with The National Funding Formula which tries to base funding on latest pupil data, rather than what the population looked like 10 years ago, and tries to take into account the levels of deprivation and challenge that schools are facing. So looking at the map on schoolcuts.org.uk nine of the state schools in Abingdon do worse in funding terms. Only St Edmunds, St Nics, and Thameside could do better.