pupil
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With the number of children coming into the school falling, he is also expecting his budget to drop as funding is per pupil.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
"If schools are losing money from falling pupil numbers, they might have less money to spend on other services they provide, such as teaching assistants that can help children with special educational needs."
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
It closed last year due to falling pupil numbers.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
"Do you want to make savings from falling pupil numbers, or do you want to maintain spending the way it is, and have lower class sizes?"
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Bobby, who was becoming Collins’s pupil, had been studying past and present chess games for years and had begun to dip into Collins’s library of hundreds of books and periodicals.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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