SCHOOLS in Dorset are set to lose more than £13million from their budgets by 2019.

Just one school in the county is not expected to lose any money, according to research.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has carried out calculations based on the Government’s new national funding formula.

It says schools in the Dorset County Council area will lose £13,036,592 from their annual budgets by 2019.

This equates to a loss £268 per pupil, or 349 teachers.

The new funding formula has been welcomed in some sectors as a fairer way to calculate funding for schools with the Government calling the NUT’s research “scaremongering”.

But DCC says it is 'disappointed' in the level of funding for the county's schools.

IPACA- which has capacity for more than 1,000 pupils- is set to be among the worst hit schools in Dorset, losing £637,764 in its budget by 2019, or £601 per pupil.

St Andrew’s Primary School in Weymouth will be be the only school in the county that will not lose money as a result of the change to funding.

One parent with children at school in the Weymouth area said that parents are being asked to give more and more.

She said that in the first week back after Christmas parents were asked for money on two separate occasions.

The parent, who did not wish to be named, said: “Parents are being asked more and more to pay for things. If you have one child at a school it isn't so bad, but some people have three children at the same school and if they're being asked to pay £3 or £4 for each child for an activity- on top of all the other expenses of having a school-age child- that soon adds up."

The new funding formula was announced by the government last year as a way to resolve "unfair" and "inconsistent" funding levels and is designed to stop inequalities that see schools in different parts of the country, with similar intakes, receive different levels of per-pupil budget.

Headteacher at All Saints School, Kevin Broadway, said that it is currently a wait-and-see situation.

He said: "The future of school funding is so unclear at the moment. I would say that we are very much in a wait and see situation but that schools cannot afford to face further cuts without a significant impact on the quality of provision we are able to offer."

According to the NUT, the Thomas Hardye School will lose £603,157 in its budget by 2019, the equivalent of losing £448 per pupil or 17 teachers with the Sir John Colfox Academy in Bridport set to lose £359,904.

Bovington Primary School and Lytchett Minster School look to be among the worst hit primary schools in the county, losing £203,720 and £257,259 respectively.

DORSET County Council has said that it is “disappointed” at the level of increase in funds for Dorset schools but that it does not think the impact will be as bad as the union is suggesting.

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. All schools are facing considerable financial pressures with little increase in funding since 2010. Schools are taking action to manage within the funding they have. We expect this to have some impact on pupils but not on the scale suggested by trade unions.”

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. It is impossible to deliver an effective education to pupils if there is no money for staff, buildings, resources, materials, activities or a full subject choice."