Where such units do not have a September 1997 school roll, it has not been possible to calculate costs per pupil. However, the overall costs are included in education authority totals and averages. Some education authorities have a policy to provide extra staffing and resources to certain schools. For example, extra teachers may be given to schools in an area designated for priority treatment. Such schools are likely to have higher budgeted costs than schools of a similar roll in other areas.
Some secondary schools offer courses to large numbers of adult returners or pupils of other schools.
These individuals are not included in the school roll figure for the report. There may be different practices for allocating the costs in these cases. Some schools serving sparsely populated areas have hostels, the cost of which is included in the total budgeted costs. In a number of cases, schools have several departments, for example, primary and pre-school classes, primary and secondary. Costs for the primary and secondary departments have been allocated separately by the education authority.