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) – 2011-2012

Data Provided by: Action for Children North Carolina

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Scale: 32.2% - 98.2%


North Carolina	56.0%
Alamance	55.6%
Alexander	54.2%
Alleghany	63.3%
Anson	79.5%
Ashe	75.6%
Avery	60.0%
Beaufort	72.0%
Bertie	83.7%
Bladen	79.1%
Brunswick	63.7%
Buncombe	55.5%
Burke	63.0%
Cabarrus	48.3%
Caldwell	59.7%
Camden	76.3%
Carteret	45.1%
Caswell	69.4%
Catawba	54.9%
Chatham	52.0%
Cherokee	69.6%
Chowan	68.3%
Clay	60.8%
Cleveland	64.9%
Columbus	75.1%
Craven	58.6%
Cumberland	51.1%
Currituck	36.9%
Dare	47.3%
Davidson	54.5%
Davie	45.1%
Duplin	76.3%
Durham	63.6%
Edgecombe	85.0%
Forsyth	55.1%
Franklin	61.3%
Gaston	59.9%
Gates	58.8%
Graham	63.6%
Granville	51.0%
Greene	84.3%
Guilford	58.7%
Halifax	82.3%
Harnett	57.9%
Haywood	54.9%
Henderson	54.9%
Hertford	85.0%
Hoke	69.4%
Hyde	68.6%
Iredell	43.0%
Jackson	58.2%
Johnston	45.9%
Jones	91.2%
Lee	64.4%
Lenoir	76.9%
Lincoln	49.5%
Macon	65.2%
Madison	63.0%
Martin	73.2%
McDowell	69.9%
Mecklenburg	54.0%
Mitchell	58.9%
Montgomery	76.5%
Moore	45.9%
Nash	69.6%
New Hanover	51.9%
Northampton	98.2%
Onslow	47.7%
Orange	32.2%
Pamlico	64.2%
Pasquotank	61.7%
Pender	63.7%
Perquimans	69.2%
Person	63.9%
Pitt	61.4%
Polk	64.3%
Randolph	58.6%
Richmond	75.8%
Robeson	83.8%
Rockingham	60.0%
Rowan	61.9%
Rutherford	70.6%
Sampson	73.4%
Scotland	79.8%
Stanly	56.0%
Stokes	52.0%
Surry	62.5%
Swain	66.8%
Transylvania	58.8%
Tyrrell	81.2%
Union	36.1%
Vance	95.2%
Wake	38.6%
Warren	86.5%
Washington	93.3%
Watauga	41.3%
Wayne	66.3%
Wilkes	65.9%
Wilson	64.4%
Yadkin	55.8%
Yancey	59.6%

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.

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Laila A. Bell, Director of Research and Data

The mission of Action for Children North Carolina is to advocate for child well-being by educating and engaging all people across the state to ensure that our children are health, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success.

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