Pupil premium: monitoring checklist

Feel confident as the pupil premium lead with our list of everything you need to do, including what data you should monitor, how you should report back to your governing board and how to track pupil progress.

Last reviewed on 10 April 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Download our monitoring checklist
  2. Evaluate and sustain your pupil premium strategy
  3. Next steps 

We'd like to thank Gulshan Kayembe, 1 of our associate education experts, for her help with this article and checklist. 

Download our monitoring checklist

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It includes sections such as:

  • The pupil premium strategy plan
  • Pupil progress
  • Links with the governing board

Evaluate and sustain your pupil premium strategy

You should:

  • Measure success based on outcomes for eligible pupils
  • Use a robust and transparent evaluation framework, and report outcomes against this
  • Consider the short, medium and long-term outcomes needed to achieve your strategy objectives
  • Make evaluation an ongoing process, as strategies that have been effective in 1 year might not continue to be effective in the future 

You shouldn't:

This is set out on page 13 of the DfE's guidance for school leaders on using