Provisional Pupil Numbers 2004, Projections and Children Educated Outwith School 2003/04

Table 8: Pupils entitled to free school meals by sector, 1997 to 2004

Revisions from the School Meals Survey January 2004

		1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004

Pupils on school roll	Total	754,739	748,529	747,968	744,577	739,511	733,520	730,372	723,355
	Primary	440,486	438,024	436,149	430,522	424,525	421,158	414,691	406,919
	Secondary	306,758	302,791	304,406	306,159	307,024	304,451	308,086	308,770
	Special	7,495	7,714	7,413	7,896	7,962	7,911	7,595	7,666

Pupils entitled to free meals	Total	163,467	164,193	154,458	150,938	144,284	138,482	137,396	137,743
	Primary	105,165	104,702	96,840	93,406	88,286	85,331	83,597	83,580
	Secondary	53,135	54,381	53,264	52,788	51,194	48,455	49,389	49,530
	Special	5,167	5,110	4,354	4,744	4,804	4,696	4,410	4,633

Pupils registered for free meals ⁽¹⁾	Total								126,681
	Primary								77,108
	Secondary								45,018
	Special								4,555

Percentage of pupils entitled to free meals	Total	21.7	21.9	20.7	20.3	19.5	18.9	18.8	19.0
	Primary	23.9	23.9	22.2	21.7	20.8	20.3	20.2	20.5
	Secondary	17.3	18.0	17.5	17.2	16.7	15.9	16.0	16.0
	Special	68.9	66.2	58.7	60.1	60.3	59.4	58.1	60.4

(1) Not collected before 2004

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