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Percentage of all pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (17582) Metric type

URI
http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/17582
Help text
This is the number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) as a percentage of all pupils for all types of schools. This includes state-funded nurseries, state-funded primary schools, state-funded secondary schools, Pupil referral units (PRUs), state-funded special schools and non-maintained special schools. General hospital schools are excluded. This includes full time and part time pupils who are sole or dual main registrations, boarding pupils, and pupils registered with other providers and further education colleges.

Information on the pupils taking up FSM is also available.

The information is based on data collected via the pupil level spring school census, school level annual school census, general hospital schools census and alternative provision census.
Modified
08 Aug 2022
Data last updated
17 Jun 2022
Short label
% of pupils eligible for FSM
Status
Live
Output precision
1
Polarity
a low value is good
Measure
Per cent
Dataset
Pupils with free school meals
Collection
Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics
Source
Department for Education
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