Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool

This service helps schools view and improve their spending. It is replacing the View my financial insights tool and the Schools financial benchmarking service.

Anyone can use it to compare schools, academies or trusts across England, though you will need a DfE Sign-in account to access some parts of the service.

Local authorities can use the service to review and help plan their high needs spending and provision.

At a school level

You can:

• see how spending compares with similar schools
• enter your own data to see how it affects the benchmarking position
• plan school curriculum finances
• see tailored commercial recommendations for each school based on data

At a local authority level

You can:

• get an overview of all your schools
• identify where schools need more support with their spending
• benchmark your high needs spending with similar local authorities

At a trust level

You can:

• get an overview of all your schools and see how spending compares with similar schools
• identify where schools need more support with their spending
• see how your spending compares with similar trusts
• view risks based on the budget forecast return

You can also download data and findings to use in reports.