School Meals in Scotland, 2008

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Table 12: Pupils in education authority primary schools: Percentage of those registered pupils who were present, who took free school meals, 2004 to 2008

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Aberdeen City

83.1

84.1

84.2

85.2

84.0

Aberdeenshire

88.7

90.7

87.9

87.1

86.4

Angus

76.7

80.3

75.7

83.7

77.9

Argyll & Bute

87.4

83.4

81.5

86.8

84.5

Clackmannanshire

81.6

80.2

79.6

79.1

79.1

Dumfries & Galloway

86.0

75.4

80.4

78.9

75.3

Dundee City

86.1

87.4

87.6

71.1

71.6

East Ayrshire (1)

86.2

82.6

81.3

82.1

84.7

East Dunbartonshire

76.9

79.5

75.5

79.4

79.7

East Lothian

85.9

85.5

85.2

79.3

84.7

East Renfrewshire

74.7

73.5

76.9

72.7

71.2

Edinburgh, City of

87.7

83.3

84.9

85.9

84.6

Eilean Siar

90.7

79.2

84.4

86.0

83.3

Falkirk

91.8

93.3

94.9

92.8

94.6

Fife (1)

82.5

79.4

81.3

79.5

81.9

Glasgow City (1)

79.4

78.2

79.8

79.3

83.8

Highland

82.2

74.6

73.5

75.2

73.5

Inverclyde

82.6

78.8

79.9

80.0

74.2

Midlothian

89.2

96.8

85.3

94.5

85.7

Moray

85.1

84.8

84.7

87.6

84.7

North Ayrshire

84.0

86.7

85.6

83.5

83.2

North Lanarkshire

78.5

77.7

76.3

80.5

79.6

Orkney Islands

90.1

90.6

82.8

81.5

84.3

Perth & Kinross

87.5

87.3

85.5

76.8

74.4

Renfrewshire

82.8

69.8

77.6

75.5

73.2

Scottish Borders (1)

82.6

68.3

79.7

75.0

78.4

Shetland Islands

91.8

89.7

92.9

90.5

87.5

South Ayrshire

81.2

81.6

82.9

81.4

78.8

South Lanarkshire

75.2

70.2

73.8

74.5

77.6

Stirling

80.6

72.9

79.0

79.8

93.8

West Dunbartonshire (1)

86.6

81.0

80.9

79.2

81.2

West Lothian

87.2

85.7

87.1

88.8

86.9

Scotland

82.4

80.0

81.0

80.6

81.3

(1) Local authorities taking part in the trial of free school meals to all pupils in P1-P3

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