Highest free meals entitlement at St Pete’s

THE highest percentage of Year 8 pupils entitled to free school meals in a non-grammar school in Northern Ireland in 2010/11 was at St Peter’s High School in Londonderry (82.6 per cent).

Immaculate Conception College had the third highest percentage in Northern Ireland (70.8 per cent).

St Brigid’s College had the sixth highest (64 per cent), St Joseph’s Boys’ School had the thirteenth highest (55.5 per cent) and St Mary’s College (52.1 per cent), St Cecilia’s College (49.3 per cent) and Oakgrove Integrated College (48.6 per cent) had the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth highest respectively.

By comparison Strabane High School (42.4 per cent) was 27th, St Patrick’s and St Brigid’s High School (35.2 per cent) was 43rd, Holy Cross College (34.8 per cent) was 45th, Lisneal College (33.8 per cent) was 49th, and St Mary’s, Limavady (32 per cent) was 56th in the list. St Patrick’s College, Dungiven (21.7 per cent) was 100th in the list whilst Limavady High School (19.9 per cent) was 110th.

In terms of grammar schools St Columbs’ College had the second highest percentage of Year 8 pupils entitled to free school meals (20.4 per cent), Thornhill College had the fourth highest (19.2 per cent) and Strabane Grammar School had the sixth highest (16.4 per cent).

At Lumen Christi (7.3 per cent), Limavady Grammar School (8.6 per cent) and Foyle and Londonderry College (8.7 per cent) less than a tenth of first year pupils were entitled to free meals, the 35th, 42nd and 43rd lowest percentages in Northern Ireland respectively.

The figures were released by the Education Minister John O’Dowd and are based on the NI school census.

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