Education cuts will 'see £432 loss for every pupil' in Wolverhampton

The £13.7 million cut to funding for city schools would also be equivalent to each child losing out on £432.

The statistics have been released on a website launched by the National Union of Teachers called schoolcuts.org, which was created on the back of the Government's 'Fairer Funding' reforms. It is predicted that the budget for city schools will have to be reduced by 2020.

Analysts have worked out the figures after looking at schools' budgets, the number of pupils, how much cash will be available to them in 2020, how much cash per pupil schools will lose and the equivalent full time teacher salaries that amount works out to.

The website, launched by the National Union of Teachers, has an interactive map which lists several individual schools and shows what they stand to lose if the cuts go ahead.

Councillor Claire Darke, Wolverhampton council cabinet member for education, said: "The Government has made so many changes and cuts to education it's difficult to keep up. It is making it very difficult for schools to operate.

"It's disadvantaging the children, it's their education. We've had big changes in our schools in the last year already.

"We've done well in Wolverhampton to deal with them, but it's like the Government is constantly trying to pull the rug from under us.

"We have a duty to the children in the city to improve schools, but it's becoming increasingly difficult now that the local authority doesn't have the powers to step in."

A spokesman for the NUT said: "We are calling on the Government to take immediate action to inject much needed money into an already beleaguered system and protect schools from rising costs. It is the only sensible solution to a crisis."

The figure for the equivalent amount of teachers that the £13.7 million budget cut would equate to was based on the national average salary of £37,000.