Sentences with phrase «meal eligibility»

Free school meal eligibility performs better and is more feasible to use than neighbourhood measures.

The district has a free and reduced price meal eligibility rate of 64 %.

70 % of their students are eligible for free and reduced meals and two schools have 100 % free and reduced meal eligibility.

It increases school meal eligibility for low - income children.

Some states use school meal eligibility data to allocate state or local education or other funds.

Changes to free school meals eligibility enacted by the government have been at the centre of a bitter row between the government and opposition since they were announced last year.

Yet some within the academic community and government recognise the limitations in using free school meal eligibility as a predictor for pupil achievement.

When combined with the other pupil characteristics, models with measures of free school meal eligibility worked best, in practical terms, for explaining variation in pupil achievement.

Two schools have 100 % free and reduced price meal eligibility.

Free school meal eligibility has not been routinely collected among 16 - 19 year olds.

Within Brighton & Hove, I also manage the free school meal eligibility checking service on behalf of all of our schools, colleges, free schools and academies, so I am well placed to collect information that will be relevant to both the caterer and our schools.

SNA was happy to submit a comment and is looking forward to working with FNS in any way possible to ease meal eligibility procedures.

The government will proceed with its plans to change the threshold for free school meals eligibility under universal credit, children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has announced.

The investigation found the trust had failed to retain any form of free school meal eligibility evidence for a period of six years — breaching the Academies Financial Handbook.

First, free school meal eligibility fluctuates with economic cycles, since the number of pupils eligible increases during times of economic hardship and shrinks during boom times.

Within Brighton & Hove, I also manage the free school meal eligibility checking service on behalf of all of our schools, colleges, free schools and academies, so I am well placed to collect information that will be relevant to both the caterer and our schools.

By placing these data points on a scatterplot, we can more easily compare the average test results of districts and charter schools that are similar in terms of district - wide free and reduced meal eligibility.

Enrollment in Newark's charter schools increased substantially during this same time period, contributing to the charters» notably higher numbers in school meal eligibility and participation.

On 17 October 2012, additional national - level tables are being added containing a further breakdown of analyses for primary type of special educational need by pupil characteristics (e.g. free school meal eligibility, age, gender, ethnicity).

It provides guidance on free school meal eligibility and the introduction of transitional protection arrangements under Universal Credit for those already receiving free school meals.

The School Food Plan includes an investment of # 11.8 million from the Department for Education to help increase school meal take - up where it is lowest and # 3 million to help set up self - sustaining breakfast clubs in 500 schools with over 40 % free school meals eligibility.

The report concluded: «We intend to conduct further, more sensitive, analysis when student level data for prior attainment, free school meal eligibility and the deprivation index become available to better understand whether these systematic factors are associated with year - on - year variability.»

Theatre of Law is available for primary schools across London with above average free school meal eligibility.

The student database also includes information on race and ethnicity, free or reduced - price meal eligibility, and status in the following programs: Learning Assistance Program reading / math, Title I reading / math, Title I Migrant, Gifted / Highly Capable, State Transitional Bilingual Program, and Special Education.

The study provides important insights into the feasibility of the programme in terms of: its potential effects on outcomes; an estimate of these potential effect sizes (providing valuable information on sample sizes for future study); the impacts on different groups (particularly with regard to free school meal eligibility); and key facilitators and barriers to implementation (from the process evaluation and the exploratory analysis of dosage).

Data on ethnicity and free school meal eligibility is sourced from Department for Education published GCSE and Equivalent Results in England, 2006 - 2015.

The School Food Plan includes an investment of # 11.8 million from the Department for Education to help increase school meal take - up where it is lowest and # 3 million to help set up self - sustaining breakfast clubs in 500 schools with over 40 % free school meals eligibility.

Ninety schools give no priority for past or present free school meals eligibility, and 21 give a lower priority in their oversubscription criteria or use it as a potential tie - breaker for the last place in the school.

The department's original plan, as reported in the last edition of Schools Week, was to extend the meals to every child of a family that claimed any part of universal credit, something charities argued would «poison» national data on disadvantaged pupils, for which free meals eligibility is used as an important yardstick.

Houston's student poverty rate, based on free and reduced - price meal eligibility, is 76 percent.

To work out the geographic areas in highest need, the company analysed data on ten indicators including free school meals eligibility, work experience exposure and availability, exam results, apprenticeship destinations and proportion of young people out of work or education in each area.

Charter schools in the state tend to be racially hyper - segregated, but not necessarily as isolated in terms of economic status (free and reduced price meal eligibility).

To figure out how to allocate these funds, the government uses free school meal eligibility to measure pupil socioeconomic disadvantage.

The idea is that free school meal eligibility is linked to lower pupil achievement, and the additional funding can help state schools to narrow the achievement gap between students who receive free school meals and those who don't.

Despite (or perhaps because of) the well - known limitations of using free school meal eligibility, our research suggests that it is presently the most practical measure of pupil deprivation.

Provisions are methods for reducing paperwork and other administrative burdens at the local level by simplifying the traditional operating procedures for meal eligibility and meal counting.

This analysis includes England information on primary type of need by age, gender, ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, national curriculum year group, first language and also information on secondary type of need.

Pupil attainment data, grouped by gender, ethnicity and free school meal eligibility, broken down by the area in which pupils live.