A PRIMARY school which was named as the best in the town by The Sunday Times is set to be hit hardest by funding cuts according to a teaching union.

And Warrington North MP Helen Jones said the lack of money for education in Warrington is an 'outrageous attack' on pupils' futures.

Evelyn Street Primary School was ranked 40th in the UK in the annual schools guide but the NUT said it will receive £697 less per pupil per year by 2019 under the Government’s education budget. 

Other primary schools which are predicted to be badly hit by the funding policy include Sankey Valley St James Primary which could lose £632 per pupil, Birchwood Primary, set to lose £623, St Augustine's which may lose £617 and Brook Acre, which may lose £615 per student.

The NUT argues that schools will be forced to cut staff and increase class sizes as headteachers face rising costs but no money to meet them.

The union's Warrington secretary Shaun Everett said: “Under this Government’s funding policies, there are no winners, only losers.

“Warrington schools are being forced to make decisions that no head teacher should have to make including reducing school staff and teachers, increasing class sizes, and reducing the range of subjects offered simply to balance the books.

“This is an unacceptable state of affairs. The NUT and ATL will continue campaigning for additional funding, to protect schools and our children’s education.”

Labour MP Mrs Jones said: "For years we have been told by the Tories that a new funding formula would benefit Warrington. Now we see that the opposite is the case.

"Secondary schools in Warrington North are losing up to £409 per pupil. Some primary schools are losing over £600 per pupil.

"This means that schools risk losing teachers or restricting the curriculum they offer. This is an outrageous attack on our children’s future.

"Theresa May talks about social mobility but the best engine of social mobility is a good education and her government refuses to invest in Warrington North’s children. Instead of wasting time thinking about more grammar schools the government should be funding our current schools properly."

Warrington is already one of the 10 worst funded areas in the country for schools and unions slammed the Government’s new ‘fairer’ funding formula as a way to redistribute money across the country without putting any more cash into education.

It argues that 98 per cent of the country’s schools will be worse off by 2019 and said 60 per cent of secondary schools are already operating with a deficit.

For more information from the unions about the impact on individual schools visit schoolcuts.org.uk.