this challenge has been recognised by moes in its policy analysis and planning school characteristics such as location and school size are taken into account for the calculation of the student basket thus small schools in rural areas receive higher per pupil funding than their urban counterparts however socioeconomic disadvantage per se is not an element in the student basket methodology and the oecd school resources review for lithuania recommended assigning weights in the student basket methodology to socioeconomically disadvantaged students shewbridge et al