School Meals in Scotland, January 2004

Table 2: Entitled pupils taking free school meals by sector, 1997 to 2004

		1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Pupils entitled to free meals	Total	163,467	164,193	154,458	150,938	144,284	138,482	137,396	138,808
	Primary	105,165	104,702	96,840	93,406	88,286	85,331	83,597	83,994
	Secondary	53,135	54,381	53,264	52,788	51,194	48,455	49,389	50,156
	Special	5,167	5,110	4,354	4,744	4,804	4,696	4,410	4,658
Pupils entitled to and taking free meals	Total	114,364	109,686	108,409	109,953	103,289	100,203	96,742	96,116
	Primary	79,652	76,179	74,324	73,500	68,649	67,084	64,547	64,055
	Secondary	30,114	29,094	30,202	32,293	30,376	29,028	28,245	28,017
	Special	4,598	4,413	3,883	4,160	4,264	4,091	3,950	4,044
Percentage of entitled pupils taking free meals	Total	70.0	66.8	70.2	72.8	71.6	72.4	70.4	69.2
	Primary	75.7	72.8	76.7	78.7	77.8	78.6	77.2	76.3
	Secondary	56.7	53.5	56.7	61.2	59.3	59.9	57.2	55.9
	Special	89.0	86.4	89.2	87.7	88.8	87.1	89.6	86.8

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