Percent of Students enrolled in Free and Reduced Lunch - North Carolina

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Percent of Students enrolled in Free and Reduced Lunch (Percent) – 2010-2011

Data Provided by: Action for Children North Carolina

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31.2% - 48.6%
Camden	31.2%
Union	34.3%
Currituck	35.1%
Wake	36.5%
Watauga	38.7%
Orange	39.8%
Cabarrus	40.3%
Dare	41.1%
Davidson	42.1%
Iredell	42.3%
Carteret	43.3%
Onslow	43.4%
Johnston	44.8%
Davie	44.9%
New Hanover	45.5%
Moore	46.0%
Lincoln	48.3%
Catawba	48.4%
Stokes	48.6%
48.7% - 59.8%
Chatham	50.7%
Granville	50.8%
Mecklenburg	51.7%
Gates	52.4%
Buncombe	53.0%
Forsyth	53.1%
Alamance	53.2%
Henderson	53.3%
Yadkin	53.6%
Randolph	54.0%
Guilford	54.1%
Haywood	54.2%
Jackson	54.4%
Craven	54.8%
Caldwell	54.8%
Stanly	55.4%
Alexander	55.7%
Harnett	56.1%
Polk	56.6%
Person	57.0%
Mitchell	57.4%
Transylvania	57.5%
Cumberland	57.6%
Yancey	58.5%
Clay	58.7%
Surry	58.8%
Franklin	58.8%
Pasquotank	58.9%
Gaston	58.9%
Pitt	58.9%
Rockingham	59.4%

48.7% - 59.8%
Pender	59.6%
Cleveland	59.8%
59.9% - 68.8%
Rowan	60.5%
Burke	61.7%
Brunswick	61.8%
Ashe	62.0%
Durham	62.0%
Avery	62.1%
Madison	62.1%
Lee	62.1%
Macon	62.3%
Swain	63.2%
Wilkes	63.4%
Lenoir	63.7%
Graham	63.8%
Pamlico	64.1%
Chowan	64.6%
Nash	64.8%
Hyde	64.9%
Wilson	65.4%
Beaufort	65.6%
Wayne	66.3%
Caswell	67.0%
Martin	67.5%
Hoke	67.5%
Perquimans	67.7%
Cherokee	67.9%
McDowell	68.2%
Alleghany	68.4%
Rutherford	68.8%
68.9% - 94.1%
Richmond	72.9%
Duplin	73.6%
Bertie	74.0%
Sampson	74.0%
Tyrrell	75.0%
Bladen	75.8%
Columbus	75.9%
Montgomery	76.5%
Anson	76.6%
Scotland	77.0%
Greene	77.9%
Edgecombe	79.8%
Jones	82.8%
Hertford	83.0%
Robeson	83.5%
Washington	84.4%
Warren	86.6%
Halifax	90.1%
Vance	93.2%
Northampton	94.1%

Definitions: The percent of students who receive school lunch free or at a reduced price. Calculated as the total number of children on free or reduced price lunch divided by average daily membership (ADM).

To be eligible for free lunch under the National School Lunch Act students must live in households earning at or below 130 percent of the Federal poverty guidelines. To be eligible for reduced price lunch, students must live in households earning at or below 185 percent of the Federal poverty guidelines.
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Data Source: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Division of Financial and Business Services. "Free & Reduced Meal Application Data." Available online at: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/fbs/resources/data/.

Footnotes: Excludes charter schools.

Last updated February 2012.

Note: Maps use the natural break classification method, which reflects patterns in the data by dividing the map into naturally occurring groups. Using statistical tools, this method determines cut-off points for each group by identifying large gaps in data values.

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Laila A. Bell, Director of Research and Data

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