30% would qualify for free school dinners...

[jtaylor]

Interesting article, with an interesting quote from The Clerk:-

http://www.tom-brown.com/articles/fee-s ... nt-pupils/

Thirty per cent of children we assess would qualify for school meals, whereas in the top state schools, it’s three per cent.
David Cooke, CEO of Christ’s Hospital

[Katharine]

I am surprised it is as low as 30%, I thought it was nearer 50%

[sejintenej]

Without any doubt that is the best advert for the school I have ever seen; indeed I have seen very few but that is good. He ought to get copies of that in the mainstream press and to every MP

[englishangel]

He also sounds like a very nice man.

Katharine, you have to be really on the breadline for free school meals. My offspring didn't get them when my husband was out of work for 4 years and I was supporting the family as a nurse/midwife.