Staff Resignation Risk Calculator

How many of your staff could be at risk of leaving?

Across England, a significant proportion of school staff are already considering leaving. Do you know how this compares in your trust or school?

This quick calculator estimates how many of your staff may be at risk, using national benchmarks.

What you’ll get:

– An estimate of how many staff may be considering resigning

– A clearer sense of your retention risk

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The result above shows the approximate number of staff members at your organisation who have considered resigning in the past three months based on our national data. It’s important to note that this number can vary from organisation to organisation and from region to region.

Why staff retention matters

Staff turnover disrupts pupils’ learning, places additional pressure on remaining staff, and makes long-term improvement harder to sustain.

There is also a financial cost. With supply teachers costing £200+ per day, even short-term vacancies quickly add up.

At King’s Leadership Academy Liverpool, improving staff retention reduced reliance on supply teachers, saving £240,000 in a single year. They also saw more consistent behaviour across the school, stronger relationships between staff and students, and reduced staff absence with fewer sickness call-ins.

National data: which roles are most at risk and why

Our data reveals the key reasons people have thought about resigning, to give leaders a richer understanding of the drivers and risk factors. Nationally, the biggest resignation drivers are: 

At the same time, it is very rarely the case that people leave because the profession is wrong for them. This is reassuring for two reasons: firstly, because it reinforces how important and mission-driven teaching and the wider education sector are, and secondly, because it means the solutions are often more within our power to improve. 

It’s important to bear in mind that, just because someone has considered resigning, it doesn’t mean they definitely will: we track our data against the schools workforce census and find that the proportion considering resigning tends to be around 5 times more than those who end up doing so.