Reading every school's accounts side by side surfaces things a single prospectus never would: the dependencies, the outliers, the quiet numbers press releases don't mention. Every finding here links back to the document it came from.
Every other specialist maths school is a state-funded 16–19 free school, drawing ESFA/DfE per-student funding. The 1729 Maths School is the sole exception: no GAG, no ESFA grant, no Companies House filing of its own. Instead it runs as a project inside a much larger independent-school charity, underwritten by a single family's stated £30 million commitment over ten years.
KCL Maths School's own accounts describe its DfE funding as "'basic rate' per-student funding and a maths school top-up" — confirming, in an audited primary document, that specialist maths schools get more than the standard national rate. But the two aren't broken out separately anywhere we could find: the accounts, and DfE's public funding-rate documents, only give a combined figure.
King's College London Mathematics School
Source: King's College London Maths School Trust, annual report 2024/25
KCL Maths School ran a £374,800 deficit in 2023/24 — the same year its founding headteacher of a decade, Dan Abramson OBE, handed over to a successor — then swung to a £56,056 surplus in 2024/25 as DfE per-student top-up funding rose from £1.55m to £1.69m and other income nearly doubled, from £594k to £955k.
King's College London Mathematics School
Source: King's College London Maths School Trust, annual reports 2023/24 and 2024/25
Durham and Nottingham were both caught in the same 2024–25 Department for Education review of 44 free-school projects, and both were confirmed to proceed in December 2025. Neither has a maths-school-specific line in its future host trust's accounts yet — Providence Learning Partnership (Durham) and East Midlands Education Trust (Nottingham) both file consolidated accounts that, for now, say nothing about the school that hasn't opened inside them.
Durham Mathematics School · University of Nottingham Maths School
Sources: Providence Learning Partnership, East Midlands Education Trust, Companies House
Cambridge and Leeds are both academies inside larger multi-academy trusts, so neither has accounts of its own — the trust's consolidated total is all Companies House shows. Eastern Learning Alliance, Cambridge Maths School's trust, posted a healthy £231k group surplus for 2024/25. But DfE's own school-level benchmarking data tells a different story for the maths school specifically: an in-year balance of −£151,388 and a reserve that's gone negative, alongside the highest per-pupil teaching-staff spend of any comparable school nationally. Leeds Maths School, under the same consolidation model, ran a small surplus at both trust and school level. Neither picture is visible from the trust accounts alone — only DfE's school-level data separates them.
Cambridge Maths School · Leeds Mathematics School
Sources: DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool — Cambridge Maths School, Leeds Maths School
Aston Maths School's trust was incorporated in 2023 under the name "Aston University Mathematics School" — built, it looks like, to run this one school alone. Then, on 14 July 2025, it was renamed Aston University STEM Education Academy Trust, and on 1 September 2025 — the day after its most recent accounting year ended, and the same week the maths school opened its doors — a second, pre-existing academy joined it. Its only Companies House filing so far is two pages of dormant-company accounts. Whenever real figures do appear, they'll describe a merged two-school trust, not this school in isolation.
Aston University Mathematics School
Sources: Aston University STEM Education Academy Trust, Companies House, Get Information About Schools