Sentences with phrase «free and reduced lunch rose»

The percentage of Hispanic students hitting the literacy benchmark by grade three increased from 63 to 73 percent, English Language Learners jumped from 68 to 75 percent and students eligible for free and reduced lunch rose from 57 to 67 percent from 2014 - 15 to 2015 - 16.

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For those lower - class families — battered by unemployment, rising health care costs, and other financial insecurity — the ability to obtain a nutritious (if admittedly not perfect) school lunch for free or a reduced price is crucial.

Bryant's score on the 1,000 - point API has risen to 820 from 727 four years ago, even though 81 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and 23 percent are English - language learners.

Similarly, the percentage from low - income backgrounds (eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) rose from 43 to 45 percent between 1998 and 2007.

In Year Two of the program, that threshold rises to 133 percent of the free and reduced lunch program, or 240 percent of the federal poverty threshold.

All of this has been done while the school, in the current economic climate, saw a 300 % rise in their numbers of free and reduced lunch.

Given the facts that student needs are rising — poverty rates across Wisconsin have been rapidly increasing, with about 40 percent of schoolchildren now eligible for free or reduced lunch — while financial support for schools at both the state and federal level is falling, they have a tall order in front of them.

Combined with 65 percent of district students qualifying for free - or reduced - price lunches — a typical barometer for poverty in education, and one that typically rises and falls with test scores — and Tijerina has his work cut out for him.