School Meals in Scotland, 2008

Table 8: Pupils in education authority primary schools: Number of pupils entitled, registered and taking free school meals, 2008

	Pupils on the school roll	Pupils entitled to free meals	Pupils entitled and registered for free meals	Registered pupils present on census day	Pupils present and taking free meals
Aberdeen City	12,334	2,103	1,709	1,560	1,435
Aberdeenshire	19,353	1,321	1,321	1,214	1,141
Angus	8,378	1,043	1,030	895	802
Argyll & Bute	6,222	689	677	625	572
Clackmannanshire	3,921	862	809	766	640
Dumfries & Galloway	10,715	1,508	1,436	1,302	1,082
Dundee City	9,819	2,612	2,612	2,411	1,870
East Ayrshire ⁽¹⁾	9,040	1,700	1,698	1,594	1,439
East Dunbartonshire	8,529	596	596	549	475
East Lothian	7,457	1,073	795	756	673
East Renfrewshire	8,406	690	690	643	491
Edinburgh, City of	24,934	5,314	4,456	4,133	3,772
Eilean Siar	1,326	132	132	121	110
Falkirk	11,582	1,789	1,762	1,678	1,667
Fife ⁽¹⁾	26,839	4,888	4,702	4,253	3,850
Glasgow City ⁽¹⁾	37,889	13,130	13,064	12,035	10,946
Highland	17,041	2,228	2,228	1,998	1,638
Inverclyde	5,776	1,348	1,348	1,193	1,000
Midlothian	6,374	1,046	932	800	799
Moray	7,055	664	649	605	550
North Ayrshire	10,499	2,452	2,346	2,163	1,951
North Lanarkshire	27,001	5,135	4,976	4,585	3,959
Orkney Islands	1,472	121	121	111	102
Perth & Kinross	10,140	993	905	835	673
Renfrewshire	12,996	2,286	2,206	2,037	1,615
Scottish Borders ⁽¹⁾	8,395	742	741	709	581
Shetland Islands	1,847	136	136	122	119
South Ayrshire	7,976	1,365	1,182	1,090	932
South Lanarkshire	23,957	3,795	3,751	3,346	2,912
Stirling	6,598	647	647	607	607
West Dunbartonshire ⁽¹⁾	6,887	1,636	1,632	1,473	1,325
West Lothian	14,529	2,554	2,099	1,982	1,823
Grant Aided	458	6	6	6	6
Scotland	375,745	66,604	63,394	58,197	51,557

(1) Local authorities taking part in the trial of free school meals to all pupils in P1-P3

The Scottish Government