{"id":112,"date":"2011-11-15T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=112"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","slug":"data-free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/data-free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: Free Schools and disadvantaged children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/data-free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children\/\" data-text=\"Data: Free Schools and disadvantaged children\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F11%2Fdata-free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children%2F&#038;text=Data%3A%20Free%20Schools%20and%20disadvantaged%20children\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolduggery.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/14\/free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children-the-data\/\">SchoolDuggery has published some data on free school meals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We estimate that fewer than 400 children entitled to free school meals (FSM) are attending the first wave of free schools, according to data supplied under a Freedom of Information Act request by 23* of the 24 schools. The data shows that in these 23 schools just 9.4% of the 3811 children on roll were registered for free school meals in October 2011. Nationally, 16.7% of children are entitled to claim free school meals because their household income is below \u00a316,000.\u00a0&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;*One school did not respond the FOI request within the statutory timescale: Kings Science Academy. We will update the data when they provide it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tables are embedded on the blog post but can be easily pulled into a spreadsheet <a href=\"http:\/\/excelnotes.posterous.com\/scraping-a-table-from-a-webpage-using-importh\">using the =importHTML formula<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0ApTo6f5Yj1iJdFY1aWJnMzZrQkNlZENyNjVGekdpckE\">Here&#8217;s one we prepared earlier&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolduggery.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/14\/free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children-the-data\/\">Lots of analysis over at the excellent SchoolDuggery<\/a>, and some interesting and valuable comments too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetSchoolDuggery has published some data on free school meals: &#8220;We estimate that fewer than 400 children entitled to free school meals (FSM) are attending the first wave of free schools, according to data supplied under a Freedom of Information Act &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/data-free-schools-and-disadvantaged-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,9],"tags":[63,62,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}