NEARLY £1.5m would be slashed from Tynedale schools in Government budget cuts, according to union predictions.

The National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers say that 92 per cent of schools and academies across the country will lose £2.5bn by 2020.

Over 50 schools in the district are predicted to be affected by the cuts and would be worse off by a combined total of £1,459,324.

The figures estimate that a total of 26 teaching assistants and 13 teachers would be lost across the district.

However, the Department for Education has dismissed the claims as “irresponsible scaremongering.”

The unions used data published by the Department for Education to calculate cuts to England’s schools over this Parliament, 2015 to 2020.

Using the 2015/16 funding as a baseline, the impacts of the cash freeze on per-pupil income, the proposed cut to the Education Services Grant and the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula were calculated.

And the results, published on the NUT and ATL website, schoolcuts.org, suggest that many of Tynedale’s schools would be badly hit.

Hexham’s Queen Elizabeth High School, for example, is estimated to suffer a reduction in its annual budget of £125,696 by 2020 under current Government policies.

And a budget cut of £112,338 under the same terms is predicted for Darras Hall First School.

General Secretary of the ATL, Mary Bousted, said: “The Government must increase funding for schools.

“If it just reallocates the existing budget many children will lose out, with some of the most deprived hit hardest. The formula for schools’ funding must not be reformed while making real terms cuts to spending. “

And Northumberland’s Labour councillors have lambasted the cuts, describing them as “educational vandalism.”

They have launched an investigation into how schools will deliver good results against the cuts.

Coun. Robert Arckless, portfolio holder for childrens services, said: “I’m shocked at the scale of these cuts and who they’re targeted at.

“Every corner of our county will see school budgets savagely cut under these proposals and I hope that opposition councillors and supporters will join us to make our case to Government why Northumberland needs more help not less.

“At a time when the county council has and is investing over £50m in new schools the Government is pledging to cut the budgets to support what happens in the classrooms.”

In March proposals were published for consultation on a new national funding formula for schools from 2017 to 2018.

And the Department for Education says that the figures do not take the new funding formula into account.

A spokesman said: “This is irresponsible scaremongering based on speculation.

“It is unfair and confusing for parents, pupils and schools themselves. In reality the school’s budget has been protected and in 2016-17 totals over £40bn, the highest ever on record.

“The Government’s fairer funding proposals will ensure that areas with the highest need attract the most funding and end the historic unfairness in the system.”

FIGURES from the National Union of Teachers and The Association of Teachers which show a cut in schools’ annual budgets by 2020.

Acomb First: £29,143. Adderlane First: £33,164. Allendale Primary: £17,274. Alston Primary: £5,642. Beaufront First: £20,576. Belsay First: £18,696. Broomley First: £30, 282. Broomhaugh C of E First: £17,288. Cambo First: £19,824. Chollerton C of E First: £17,292. Corbridge C of E Aided First: £28,494. Corbridge Middle: £19,486. Darras Hall First: £112,338. Greenhaugh First: £18,299. Haltwhistle Community Campus Lower: £27,824. Haydon Bridge Community High: £42,732. Haydon Bridge Shaftoe Trust Primary: £15,837. Heddon-on-the-Wall St Andrews C of E First: £41,302. Henshaw C of E Voluntary Aided First: £19,577. Hexham East First: £27,748. Highfield Middle: £8,235. Humshaugh C of E First: £19,889. Mickley First: £28, 715. Newbrough C of E Primary: £17,105. Otterburn First: £17,896. Ovingham C of E First: £20,961. Ponteland Community High: £141,347. Ponteland First: £57,783. Ponteland Middle: £36,314. Prudhoe Castle First: £15,615. Prudhoe Community High: £72,232. Prudhoe West First: £35,879. Queen Elizabeth High: £125,696. Richard Coates C of E: £4,226. Samuel King’s: £33,888. Sele First: £42,099. Slaley First: £19,185. Stamfordham First: £21,279. St Mary’s RC Voluntary Aided First: £27,968. St Matthew’s Catholic Primary: £15,414. Wark C of E First: £19,926. West Woodburn First: £17,599. Whitfield C of E Voluntary Aided Primary: £20,824. Whitley Chapel C of E First: £17,456. Whittonstall First: £31,833. Wylam First: £27,396.