Free School Meals: Bury St Edmunds
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in Bury St Edmunds constituency have been eligible to receive free school meals in each of the last six years.
The number of pupils attending schools in Bury St Edmunds and known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each of the last six years is given in the table below:
Year | Number of Pupils on Roll | Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming FSM | % of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming FSM |
January 2011 | 17,436 | 1,328 | 7.6 |
January 2012 | 17,412 | 1,365 | 7.8 |
January 2013 | 17,270 | 1,515 | 8.8 |
January 2014 | 17,294 | 1,716 | 9.9 |
January 2015 | 17,510 | 1,618 | 9.2 |
January 2016 | 17,360 | 1,508 | 8.7 |
This information has been calculated from the underlying data of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release[1] for each corresponding year.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers