England
Maintained-school financial website disclosures
Official wording, responsibilities and review duties.
Requirement and scope
Choose the governance type; academy and maintained duties differ. Choose a phase; confirm age and provision conditions.
Maintained school
Required document [1]
Must publish. Website publication within the stated scope. [1]
- Source-established phases
- Primary, Secondary, All-through, Special
- Source-established school types
- Mainstream school, Special school
- EYFS condition
- No separate EYFS condition stated
- Accountable
- not stated in the source
- Approval
- not stated in the source
- Operational owner
- not stated in the source
- Review cycle
- set by the school
Independent schools and pupil referral units are outside this catalogue’s supported governance mapping.
Publish salary bands for employees, if any, whose gross annual salary exceeds £100,000 and a link to the official financial benchmarking page. Academy benefit-band disclosure has its own executive-pay row.
Official wording
Financial information
What schools must publish Schools must publish: the number of their employees, if any, whose gross annual salary exceeds £100,000, presenting this information in £10,000 bandings – DfE recommends using a table to display this a link to the dedicated webpage for their school on the schools financial benchmarking service
What maintained schools must or should publish online · Reviewed 2026-10-26
Sources and updates
Official evidence reviewed 2026-10-26. Check the source edition and conditions before acting.
What maintained schools must or should publish online
Reviewed edition matches. Source text matches the reviewed edition.
- Reviewed on
- 2026-10-26
- Reviewed version
- 2024-10-24T13:22:43+01:00
- Last checked
- 2026-10-27T11:00:36.203Z
- Reviewed text digest (SHA-256)
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- 601afc48-7631-11e4-a3cb-005056011aef
- Official content digest (SHA-256)
b3b7c2dedfb7e1fe1d249c685ca0f56f901e00aef72bbc7fba327afd2ccf9596
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online
Guidance, not legal advice. Local checks are not a compliance judgement; other duties may apply.