Cambridge Maths School
The trust as a whole posted a £231k surplus in 2024/25 — but DfE's own school-level data has Cambridge Maths School £151k in the red that year, with a negative reserve, and the highest per-pupil teaching-staff spend of any comparable school in the country.
These headline figures are for the whole trust the school belongs to, not the school alone — see below.
Who files the accounts
Cambridge Maths School is one academy inside Eastern Learning Alliance, a Cambridgeshire multi-academy trust that files one consolidated set of accounts for all its schools — the maths school has no accounts of its own.
07899393The accounts, year by year
The most recent filed accounts (2024/25, year ended 31 August 2025) show a net result of +£231k.
| 2023/24 | 2024/25 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total income | £47.3m | £51.6m |
| Total expenditure | £50.0m | £51.4m |
| Net result for the year | −£2.69m | +£231k |
Figures are for the whole multi-academy trust the school belongs to — the trust files one consolidated set of accounts; the school does not publish stand-alone accounts. School-level figures, where available, appear below.
2023/24 → 2024/25 (trust-wide)
School-level figures
The Department for Education's Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool publishes school-level figures even where the trust's accounts consolidate:
| Year | School-level figures (FBIT) |
|---|---|
| 2024/25 | Total income £1,605,199; total expenditure £1,749,713 (staff costs ≈£1,155,954); in-year balance −£151,388; revenue reserve −£34,012 (negative); 80 pupils on roll (January 2025 census). Teaching & teaching-support staff cost £13,027 per pupil — higher than 100% of comparator schools nationally. |
| 2023/24 | Total income £1,057,099; total expenditure £949,622; in-year balance +£104,893; revenue reserve £112,256; total staff costs ≈£707,151; 44 pupils on roll — the school's opening year. |
Figures include a per-pupil share of Eastern Learning Alliance's MAT central costs, per FBIT's own methodology. Pulled from FBIT's data API (income/expenditure/balance/census), not the static summary page, which shows only per-pupil comparisons. School-level FBIT data begins at 2023/24, with no earlier rows — consistent with 2023 being the school's opening year.
- ESFA 16–19 allocation
- £999k for 2024/25 (95 funded students) — source
Notable items in the accounts
- 2024/25: Trust-wide revenue reserve of £987,000 — the full 'total funds carried forward' figure wasn't extracted; the trust's own statutory accounts are a scanned PDF, not machine-readable text.
Sources
- 1.DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool — Cambridge Maths School — financial-benchmarking-and-insights-tool.education.gov.uk/school/149596/history (URN 149596)
- 2.DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool — Eastern Learning Alliance (trust) — financial-benchmarking-and-insights-tool.education.gov.uk/trust/07899393/history
- 3.Eastern Learning Alliance — Companies House filing history — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07899393/filing-history
- 4.DfE 16–19 allocation data 2024/25 — www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2024-to-2025 (row for 'Cambridge Maths School', UKPRN 10092570)
What we could not verify: Trust-level total funds carried forward (net assets) wasn't extracted for either year — Eastern Learning Alliance's statutory accounts for both years ended 31 August 2024 and 2025 are scanned image PDFs with no text layer, both at Companies House and on the trust's own site. Only the narrower 'revenue reserve' figure (2024/25) is shown.; Auditor name not identified (same scanned-PDF limitation).; No specific narrative mention of Cambridge Maths School was found in the trust's annual report this pass.; The ESFA allocation total (£998,565) is DfE's own stated grand total; it doesn't visibly reconcile with the sum of itemised subtotal columns in the same spreadsheet, and that discrepancy wasn't resolved.; FBIT's reported 2023/24 school-level in-year balance (+£104,893) doesn't exactly equal income minus expenditure as shown (+£107,477) — a small gap in DfE's own published figures, likely a capital/other adjustment not broken out at this level, reported as published rather than reconciled..
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