Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many year seven pupils received free school meals in each grammar school in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

School level data on the total number of pupils in receipt of free school meals can be found in the underlying data of the Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics statistics for 2014[1], 2015[2] and 2016[3] respectively[4].

School-level data for individual years cannot be made available since the numbers involved for some of the schools would risk the identification of individual pupils.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014 - click on underlying data, open the ‘SFR15_2014_school_level_pupils_UD’ file and the free school meal figures are in column EC.

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - click on underlying data, open the ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils_UD’ file and the free school meal figures are in column EC.

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016 - click on underlying data, open the ‘SFR20_2016_Schools_Pupils_UD’ file and the free school meal figures are in column EB.

[4] In all three datasets, grammar schools are identified by applying the filter ‘Selective’ in the column ‘AdmissionsPolicy’ and ‘State-funded secondary’ in the column ‘Phase-type grouping’.