TEACHING unions have calculated schools in North Yorkshire stand to lose £5.3m over four years, with some individual schools seeing tens of thousands of pounds axed from their budgets.

The website Schools Cuts, which has been spearheaded by the National Union of Teachers, has calculated how much funding individual schools will lose from their budgets in the four years between 2015/16 and 2019/20.

According to the figures put together by the coalition of unions, 199 out of 295 schools in North Yorkshire face cuts, which average out at £76 per pupil in the county.

The website states that in the four year time period Hackforth and Hornby CE Primary School will have lost £158,000 from its budget, amount to £3,500 per pupil. The Northern Echo contacted the primary to see if they agreed with the figures, but they did not wish to comment.

According to the Schools Cuts website, they also calculated Aiskew, Leeming Bar CE Primary could lose £25,600 and Crakehall CE Primary School could lose £38,600 and Askrigg Voluntary Controlled Primary School lose £39,700 and Gunnerside Methodist Primary School £95,400.

Earlier this year, education leaders in North Yorkshire said it was imperative the Government recognised the additional expense in educating children in sparsely populated areas before the new National Funding Formula was introduced.

The council’s executive member for education, Cllr Patrick Mulligan said the council spends more money helping transport children to school in rural areas.

Half of the money from the government allocated to schools for educating children with High Needs will be based on local levels of population and deprivation, which could affect funding for children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in the county.

North Yorkshire County Council is now approaching MPs to raise the new National Funding Formula affecting schools funding.

The council said this week schools were facing difficult times, but did not recognise the figures arrived at by Schools Cuts.

In a statement, the council said: “Whilst we do not recognise the figures used in this particular school funding analysis, we do understand that our schools face very real funding pressures and we continue to advocate on their behalf.

“One of our chief priorities is that North Yorkshire’s schools are able to continue to deliver the very high standards of teaching and learning that the vast majority of children and young people enjoy in our county.

“We are therefore currently writing to MPs to raise the issue in particular that sparsity is inadequately reflected in the new national funding formula.

“We have many small schools in rural areas, more than any other authority in England, and we will continue to lobby national government for better funding for the county’s schools. We are also highlighting the increasing pressures on the budget available for children and young people with High Needs.”

On its website, Schools Cuts said it arrived at its figures by looking at the core schools budget as it represented 75 per cent of school spending and then used the schools block funding allocations for 2015/16 as the baseline, which gives the per pupil funding for every mainstream school. It then compared this with the funding amounts from the Government’s illustration of the impact of the National Funding Formula, assuming schools would implement the new National Funding Formula as the Government recommended.

Last year there were fears that three Wensleydale primary schools – Bainbridge, Askrigg and West Burton were unlikely to remain open after education bosses predicted a shortfall of £95,000 for the schools by March this year and low pupil numbers.

Earlier this year it was announced the schools would be able to stay open, following a change in their funding formula, but they will have to significantly change how they operate and will probably have to reduce the number of class groups across three sites to save money.

Schools Cuts' calculated expected changes to individual schools’ funding from 2015/16 until 2019/20:

See how schools in Hambleton and Richmondshire fare:

THIRSK:

• Thirsk Community Primary. Will lose £16,500 by 2020, or £74 per pupil

• All Saints Roman Catholic Primary will lose £13,800 or £191 per pupil

• Thirsk School and Sixth Form. £101,100 or £135 per pupil

• Sowerby Community Primary School. £21,200 or £70 per pupil

• Carlton Miniott Community Primary School. None.

• South Kilvington CE Voluntary Controlled Primary School. £25,000 or £275 per pupil

• Knayton CE Primary. £14,500 or £116 per pupil

• South Otterington CE Voluntary Controlled Primary School. £6,900 or £60 per pupil

• Alanbrooke School near Ripon. £46,000 and £755 per pupil

• Sessay CE Voluntary Controlled Primary School. £10,000 or £122 per pupil

Skelton Newby Hall CE Primary School. £17,000 by 2020, or £339 per pupil.

RICHMONDSHIRE:

• Askrigg Voluntary Controlled Primary School. £39,700 and £1,100 per pupil

• Bainbridge CE Primary. Not expected to lose any, but classes sizes increased.

• Masham CE VA Primary School will lose £10,100 or £91 per pupil

• Kell Bank CE Primary School at Fearby is not expected to lose any money

• St Nicholas CE Primary School, West Tanfield will lose £435 or £10 per pupil

• North Stainley CE Primary will lose £9,200 or £149 per pupil

• Pickhill CE Primary School will lose £6,100 or £186 per pupil

• Gunnerside Methodist Primary School. £95,400 or £6,400 per pupil

• Melsonby Methodist Primary School. Not expected to lose any money.

• West Burton CE Primary. Not expected to lose any money, but pupil/teacher ratio increased.

• Middleton Tyas CE Primary School will lose £5,600 and £36 per pupil.

• Richmond School. £7,100 or £6 per pupil

• Richmond Methodist Primary School. £10,6000 or £34 per pupil

• St Francis Xavier School, Richmond. £40,200 or £87 per pupil

• St Mary’s RC Primary, Richmond. Not expected to lose any

• Richmond CE Primary. Not expected to lose any

BEDALE AND LEEMING:

• Aiskew, Leeming Bar CE Primary School. £25,600 or £413 per pupil

Bedale High School. £24,000 or £41 per pupil

• Crakehall CE Primary School. £38,600 or £394 per pupil

• Leeming RAF Community Primary School. Not expected to lose any

• Leeming and Londonderry Community Primary School. Not expected to lose any

• Hackforth and Hornby CE Primary. £158,000 or £3,500 per pupil

CATTERICK:

• Michael Syddall Church of England Aided Primary School. £4,300 or £25 per pupil

Catterick Garrison Le Cateau Community Primary School. £50,100 or £123 per pupil.

• Carnagill Community Primary School. £57,300 or £272 per pupil

• Colburn Community Primary School. £37,700 or £198 per pupil

• Hipswell CE Primary School. £19,100 or £120 per pupil

• Wavell Community Junior School. Not expected to lose any.

• Brompton-on-Swale CE Primary. £11,700 or £56 per pupil

NORTHALLERTON:

• Ainderby Steeple CE Primary School. Not expected to lose any, but is classed “underfunded”.

• Alverton Primary School. £64,200 or £347 per pupil

• Applegarth Primary School. £11,100 or £40 per pupil

• Appleton Wiske Community Primary School. £9,400 or £142 per pupil

• Broomfield School. None, but classed “underfunded”

• Croft CE Primary School. None, but class sizes have increased

• East Cowton CE Primary School. None

• Great Smeaton Academy Primary School. None

• Kirkby Fleetham CE Primary School. None

• Mill Hill Community Primary School. £26,900, or £165 per pupil

• Romanby Primary School. £10,100 or £36 per pupil

• Sacred Heart RC Primary School. £16,800 or £215 per pupil

STOKESLEY:

Stokesley School. £239,000 or £242 per pupil

• Stokesley Community Primary School. None, but classed as receiving less than average funding

• Kirkby and Great Broughton CE VA Primary School. £10,100 or £85 per pupil

• Ingleby Greenhow CE Voluntary Controlled Primary School. £10,800 or £264 per pupil

• Roseberry Academy, Great Ayton. £10,000 or £46 per pupil

• Marwood CE Voluntary Controlled Infant School, Great Ayton. Not expected to lose any

• Carlton and Faceby CE Voluntary Aided School. Not expected to lose any

• Hutton Rudby Primary School. £14,400 or £73 per pupil

• Swainby and Potto CE Primary. Not expected to lose any.

• Ingleby Arncliffe CE Voluntary Primary. Not expected to lose any

EASINGWOLD:

• Alne Primary School. Not expected to lose any money, but pupil/teacher ratio increased

• Sutton-on-the-Forest CE Voluntary Controlled Primary. Not expected to lose any

• Huby CE Primary. Not expected to lose any money. But the pupil: teacher ratio has increased

• Linton-on-Ouse Primary School. £24,500 or £236 per pupil

• Forest of Galtres Anglican/Methodist Primary. Not expected to lose any, but classed “underfunded”

• Easingwold School. Not expected to lose any

• Easingwold Community Primary School. £40,800 or £158 per pupil.

For more figures visit; https://schoolcuts.org.uk