Alexandria Public School System has a total of 15,056 students, and 58 % of the school population
receive free and reduced lunch.
Each school receives its share of the SGSA funds based on the number of students who
receive free and reduced lunch.
Principal Rainey also highlighted several aspects about the school: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students
receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bond money
More than 90 % of kids in the San Antonio ISD are eligible to
receive free and reduced lunch.
Or, when you analyze the census data, you notice there are more children who
receive free and reduced lunch than in the past, showing a trend in a declining income base.
And there are districts serving diverse populations who largely
receive free and reduced lunch who have good things to say about the changes to their lunchrooms.
Sal Valenza of the West New York School District in New Jersey, which also serves primarily Latino students who overwhelmingly
receive free and reduced lunch, has also had positive feedback from the students and administrators, and says changes to nutritional standards nationwide could have a big impact.
Like many schools, we serve a diverse student body, with 45 % of our students
receiving free and reduced lunch support.
America Achieves pointedly doesn't talk about the first quartile of students, those who attend schools with less than about 10 % of the students
receiving free and reduced lunch.
The percentage of students
receiving free and reduced lunch ranged from 8 % in suburban areas to 32 % in the one urban high school.
In 2010, the percentage of students
receiving free and reduced lunch climbed above 50 percent in the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, while the percentage of students of color grew to 60 percent.
For example, on the mathematics portion of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to test, poor students (among those from lowest quartile in family income), who attended schools that served the poorest families (a school in the highest quartile of
those receiving free and reduced lunch), attained a mean score of 425.
But wealthy students (in the highest quartile of family income), who attended schools that served the wealthiest families (schools in the lowest quartile of students
receiving free and reduced lunch), scored a mean of 528.
Almost 86 % of the student population
receives free and reduced lunch.
Using data from the 2014 - 2015 school year, we compared the percentages of students who
received free and reduced lunch (FRL students) in the individual schools with that of their corresponding districts.
Not exact matches
The federal government pays the district for each
free or
reduced - price
lunch taken,
and the caterer
receives a set fee from the district per
lunch.
For the months during the study, the school district provided data for average daily participation rates, overall school enrollment,
and percent of students
receiving a
free or
reduced price
lunch.
Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research
and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who
receive free or
reduced - price
lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.
Schools that opt out can not
receive reimbursement for
free and reduced lunch programs that are offered to children from low - income families.
In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for
free and reduced - priced
lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each
and every child
receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.
During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students
received free or
reduced - price breakfasts
and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer
receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.
The Food Research
and Action Center's report, «Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation,» said that nationally about 3.2 million children are enrolled in summer nutrition programs, compared with 15.3 million who
receive free and reduced - price
lunches during the school year.
Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses
and 88 percent of the children attending
receive free or
reduced - price
lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.
And a 2008 study from USDA shows that 70 percent of children
receiving free lunches through the NSLP are children of color, along with 50 percent of
reduced price
lunches.
The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students
and have a very low percentage of students
receiving free or
reduced - price
lunches.
As a pediatrician, it is very worrisome to me that the children most likely to be eligible to
receive free or
reduced - price school
lunch are exactly those who are at greatest risk for obesity
and Type II diabetes: Latinos
and African - Americans.
The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations
and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students
receiving free or
reduced lunch in New York City.
If your student
receives free or
reduced lunch he / she has to pay the full price for extra milk
and snack milk.
With 46 schools across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan,
and Queens, Success Academy enrolls 15,500 students, primarily low - income children of color in disadvantaged neighborhoods: 75 % of students
receive free or
reduced - price
lunch, 87 % are children of color, 16 % are children with disabilities,
and 8 % are English language learners.
Those who did not
receive free or
reduced - cost
lunch had higher cognitive
and behavioral engagement.
«The key finding is that while students prefer less - healthy school
lunch options, income constraints, particularly for those students
receiving free and reduced - price meals, cause these students to continue participating in the school
lunch program
and, hence, these students consume healthier meals,» Kropp said.
After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students
receiving a
free or
reduced - price school
lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency,
and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).
[7] In terms of the proportion of students
receiving free - or
reduced - price
lunch, both magnet
and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets
and charters
and Florida
and North Carolina for magnets only).
Some programs, such as Connect to Compete
and Internet Essentials, have already started on this work, offering low cost computers
and Internet access to families of students that
receive free or
reduced price
lunch.
For each school, we know the nontargeted, or noncategorical, allocations made for each student who attends the school as well as how much the school
received for five targeted groups of students: students eligible for
free or
reduced - price
lunch, students eligible for bilingual education programs, students with disabilities, gifted students,
and students in vocational education programs.
Apart from their learning environment, these eight 3rd graders are just like their peers at Lee Elementary, where 77 percent
receive free or
reduced - priced
lunch, an indicator of poverty,
and many report not having computer access at home.
In particular, we know each student's gender, ethnicity, whether they
received free or
reduced - price
lunch through the federal
lunch program, whether they were English language learners or
received special education services,
and their record of suspensions
and absences from school.
In a school where one in ten students is a native English speaker,
and 95 percent
receive free or
reduced lunch, the AP Calculus program has grown from 15 students to 150 in three years
and boosts the highest pass rate in the district on the AP exam.
In the year prior to entering a KIPP school, 80 percent of the KIPP students are from low - income families, as measured by eligibility for
free or
reduced - price school breakfast
and lunch (FRPL); 96 percent are either black or Hispanic; 7 percent are English language learners;
and 7 percent
receive special education services (see Figure 1a).
Almost half the students
receive free or
reduced - price
lunch,
and 16 percent are English learners, primarily Sudanese
and Somali refugees.
Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who
receive free or
reduced - price school
lunch,
and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.
«This protects the confidentiality of students
receiving free -
and reduced - price
lunches.»
Besides eliminating the problem of children fumbling through their pockets for change or losing their money on the playground, the system also protects the privacy of youngsters
receiving free -
and reduced - price
lunches.
One in ten of the students are native English speakers
and 95 percent of them
receive free or
reduced lunch.
About 75 percent of Ferraro's students
receive free or
reduced - price
lunches,
and about one - third speak English as a second language.
Over 90 percent of the roughly 800 students
receive free or
reduced - price
lunch,
and 90 percent have identifiable trauma in their backgrounds.
The principal did some research
and learned that the students reported for fighting were
receiving free or
reduced - price
lunches,
and thought the families might not be able to afford certain hygiene products.
For the vast majority of public schools, approval to
receive free and / or
reduced - price
lunches (FRPL) has been the sole, or at least the primary, indicator of low family income under Title I.
Some districts, such as Hillsborough, distribute a flat amount of $ 500 for each child who is eligible to
receive free and reduced - price
lunch, regardless of total school poverty or grade level.
Approximately 95 percent of students are Latino or African - American
and 85 percent
receive free or
reduced lunch at OUHS.