Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government have given schools in York a £3.6 million Christmas present.

The cash is the Pupil Premium funding, which targets extra money to schools depending on the number of children from disadvantaged backgrounds they have.

Local schools to benefit include:

• Dringhouses Primary School £36,000

• York High School £271,800 (the largest allocation in the City)

The Pupil Premium covers any primary or secondary school pupil that has been registered for Free School Meals in the past six years. For 2013/14, the Premium will be worth £1.65bn, or £900 per pupil, in total.

The Pupil Premium is a major Liberal Democrat priority that is being delivered by the Coalition Government. The Pupil Premium was one of four policy priorities that the Liberal Democrats put on the front page of their 2010 General Election manifesto. The others were: raising the point at which you start paying Income Tax to £10,000 to give people on low and middle incomes a £700 tax cut; creating jobs by making Britain greener; and measures to clean up politics. The Pupil Premium was one of the key measures argued for by Liberal Democrats during the Coalition negotiations. By 2015, it will be worth a total of £2.5bn a year to schools in England.

Direct schools grants in the City are also being increased from £106M to £110M.

Further information can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/Pupil-premium-2013

The complete list of allocations to York schools is:

• Danesgate Community N/A
• Acomb Primary School £14,400
• Hempland Primary School £21,600
• Carr Junior School £46,800
• Carr Infant School £45,900
• Derwent Junior School £36,900
• Derwent Infant School £27,000
• Dringhouses Primary School £36,000
• Fishergate Primary School £36,000
• Haxby Road Primary School £79,200
• Knavesmire Primary School £18,000
• Park Grove Primary School £33,300
• Copmanthorpe Primary School £18,900
• Poppleton Road Primary School £67,500
• Yearsley Grove Primary School £72,000
• Scarcroft Primary School £43,200
• Westfield Primary Community School £167,400
• Clifton Green Primary School £142,200
• Burton Green Primary School £60,300
• Woodthorpe Primary School £101,700
• Hob Moor Community Primary School £109,800
• Poppleton Ousebank Primary School £19,800
• Ralph Butterfield Primary School £18,000
• Skelton Primary School £15,300
• Osbaldwick Primary School £51,300
• Huntington Primary School £27,000
• Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary School £7,200
• Wigginton Primary School £12,600
• Headlands Primary School £6,300
• Rufforth Primary School £5,400
• Bishopthorpe Infant School £9,000
• Lakeside Primary School £41,400
• Tang Hall Primary School £54,000
• Clifton With Rawcliffe Primary School £36,900
• Badger Hill Primary School £9,000
• Saint Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School £31,500
• St Paul’s Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School £6,300
• Dunnington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School £9,900
• Elvington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School £0
• St Oswald’s Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School £16,200
• Lord Deramore’s Primary School £15,300
• Naburn Church of England Primary School N/A
• Robert Wilkinson Primary School £42,300
• St Mary’s Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School N/A
• Archbishop of York’s CofE Voluntary Controlled Junior School, Bishopthorpe £14,400
• Heworth Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School £21,600
• Saint Lawrence’s Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School £70,200
• Wheldrake with Thorganby Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School £6,300
• St Aelred’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School £42,300
• St George’s Roman Catholic Primary School, York £45,000
• St Wilfrid’s, York, Roman Catholic Primary School £34,200
• New Earswick Primary School £41,400
• Our Lady Queen Martyrs £50,400
• Canon Lee School £177,300
• Huntington School £157,500
• Fulford School £55,800
• Burnholme Community College £99,900
• Millthorpe School £153,000
• Archbishop Holgate’s School, A Church of England Academy £113,400
• Joseph Rowntree School £152,100
• Manor Church of England Academy Trust £82,800
• All Saints RC School £95,400
• York High School £271,800
• Applefields School N/A
• Hob Moor Oaks School N/A
Actual figures may differ slightly when pupil numbers are updated in the new year.