Eligible recipients of free or reduced-price lunch in South Dakota
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Definitions:
This indicator represents the number of children eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch in public schools. Children may also be eligible to receive free or reduced price breakfast and/or milk. To receive a free or reduced price meal, households must meet income eligibility requirements.
The denominator for the percentage is total public school enrollment in respective geographic areas.
Data Source:
State and District data: South Dakota Department of Education, Statistical Digest, https://doe.sd.gov/ofm/statdigest.aspx
County data: Child and Adult Nutrition Services, South Dakota Department of Education. https://doe.sd.gov/
Footnotes:
UPDATED - January 2021
NA - the data is not available or data is suppressed if 20 or fewer children are enrolled in the district or county.
DATE - Data is a snapshot from October during the reference school year. For county-level data, school year 2016/17 and before are from March of the reference school year.
GEOGRAPHY - Data reflect the school location, not the child's place of residence. School districts and counties do not perfectly align, the school district is matched to the home county.
Corsica 21-2 and Stickney 01-2 consolidated into Corsica-Stickney 21-3 in 2015/16 and is only reported as Corsica-Stickney 21-3 in this table.
Shannon County School District 65-1 changed their district name to Oglala Lakota County School District 65-1 in 2015 and is only reported as Oglala Lakota County School District in this table. Grant-Deuel School Disctrict dissolved and attached to Milbank School District 25-4, Deuel School District 19-4, and Waverly-South Shore School District 14-5 in 2017/18.