SCHOOLS across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset are set to lose millions from their budgets by 2019, according to a teachers’ union.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has launched its School Cuts website, which calculates the cash freeze on the amount of funding for each pupil, the proposed cut to the Education Services Grant and the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula.

Parents can visit the website and search for their child’s school to see how much government funding they could lose, according to the NUT.

Poole High School appears to be the worst hit in the county, losing out by nearly half a million pounds, £451,446, which equates to the loss of 12 teachers or £285 per pupil.

Meanwhile fellow Poole schools, Carter Community School could lose £320,460 by 2019, which is the equivalent of nine teachers or £824 per pupil, and St Edward’s C of E School could lose £272,578, which equates to seven teachers or £297 per student.

None of the head teachers from the three schools mentioned were available for comment.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, said: “These are shocking figures that will create despair in schools up and down the country.

“Far from being the levelling up of funding that councils and heads have demanded, the Government is levelling down and schools across the country face real terms cuts in this Parliament.”

The NUT reports that 98-per-cent of schools’ costs are rising faster than their income.

The Government created the National Funding Formula to stop inequalities that see schools in different parts of the country, with similar intakes, receive different levels of per-pupil budget.

According to the School Cuts website, the three schools which Cllr Bill Pipe, ward councillor for Lytchett Minster and Upton West, says are within his remit, which are Lytchett Minster School, Upton Infant School and Upton Junior School, would collectively lose over £360,000.

However, he said that he does not think that there will be cuts, and schools’ funding needs to represent a ‘large area of equality’.

He said the NUT is "scaremongering" and said proposed figures for the academic year from September show that all three school will receive more cash.

He said National Funding Formula figures show that funding for Upton Infants School is set to go up to just over £1million, which is a five-per-cent increase. Upton Junior will receive just under £1.4 million, a 2.5 per cent increase, and Lytchett Minster School will get almost £5.5 million, representing a 2.7 per cent increase.

“It’s still in consultation until March. It’s all part of the Fairer Funds Formula across the country, but nothing has been signed off yet" he added.

Cllr Deborah Croney, Dorset County Council’s cabinet member for learning and skills, said: “We welcome the government’s second consultation on a national funding formula for schools.

“Overall, this signals a step towards rebalancing schools’ funding nationally and an increase in funding for Dorset pupils.

“However, we are disappointed at the level of increase in funds for Dorset schools and the method chosen to distribute funding to schools.”