Statistics Publication Notice: Education Series: School Meals in Scotland 2006

		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Pupils on school roll	Total	747,968	744,577	739,511	733,520	730,372	723,355	714,499	703,258
	Primary	436,149	430,522	424,525	421,158	414,691	406,919	398,697	390,725
	Secondary	304,406	306,159	307,024	304,451	308,086	308,770	308,326	305,148
	Special	7,413	7,896	7,962	7,911	7,595	7,666	7,476	7,385
Pupils entitled to free meals	Total	154,458	150,938	144,284	138,482	137,396	137,744	132,351	122,991
	Primary	96,840	93,406	88,286	85,331	83,597	83,580	79,365	74,279
	Secondary	53,264	52,788	51,194	48,455	49,389	49,530	47,962	44,400
	Special	4,354	4,744	4,804	4,696	4,410	4,634	5,024	4,312
Pupils registered for free meals ⁽¹⁾	Total						126,681	123,055	115,437
	Primary						77,108	74,078	70,113
	Secondary						45,018	44,010	41,151
	Special						4,555	4,967	4,173
Percentage of pupils entitled to free meals	Total	20.7	20.3	19.5	18.9	18.8	19.0	18.5	17.5
	Primary	22.2	21.7	20.8	20.3	20.2	20.5	19.9	19.0
	Secondary	17.5	17.2	16.7	15.9	16.0	16.0	15.6	14.6
	Special	58.7	60.1	60.3	59.4	58.1	60.4	67.2	58.4
Percentage of pupils registered for free meals	Total						17.7	17.2	16.4
	Primary						19.1	18.6	17.9
	Secondary						14.8	14.3	13.5
	Special						59.4	66.4	56.5

(1) Not collected before 2004

Page updated: Monday, June 05, 2006

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