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City Technology Colleges: Free School Meals

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of children at each city technology college established prior to 1 May 1997 are eligible for free school meals at each such school. (169837)

The latest available information relates to January 2007 and is shown in the table.

City technology colleges1, number and percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals2, as at January 2007

Pupil achievement and attainment tables2

LEA number

School name

Number of pupils

Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals

Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals

Southwark

Bacon’s College

882

279

31.6

Wandsworth

ADT College

885

219

24.7

Croydon

BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology

271

31

11.4

Solihull

The City Technology College

1,199

238

19.8

Gateshead

Emmanuel College

970

65

6.7

South Gloucestershire

John Cabot City Technology College

795

60

7.5

Kent

The Leigh City Technology College

1,109

73

6.6

Northamptonshire

Brooke Weston CTC

913

36

3.9

Telford and Wrekin

Thomas Telford School

839

100

11.9

Croydon

Harris City Technology College

866

99

11.4

1 City technology colleges established prior to 1 May 1997.

2 Includes pupils with sole and dual registration who are full-time and aged 0 to 15 (inclusive) and those who are part-time and aged five to 15 (inclusive).

Source:

School Census.