From April 2014, an enhanced pupil premium has been extended to those who were adopted or granted a special guardianship order after 30 December 2005.
Charity Adoption UK has estimated that the cut-off point means up to 15,000 adopted children, some as young as nine, will miss out on the support.
It has called on government to extend the pupil premium plus, which is worth £1,900 per adopted and looked-after child, to all adopted schoolchildren.
Chief executive of Adoption UK, Hugh Thornbery, said the majority of children adopted in England come from a background of abuse and neglect, and children frequently experience significant difficulties in school due to early trauma they may have experienced.
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