To assist schools by assessing Free School Meal (FSM) entitlement for new claimants against the Government’s Eligibility Checking Service (ECS).
Children may be able to get free school meals if they get any of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit - if you apply on or after 1 April 2018 your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you get)
Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.
Children may also get free school meals if they get any of these benefits and the child is both:
- younger than the compulsory age for starting school
- in full-time education
Free School Meal Eligibility Checking Service
How to apply for free school meals
Children attending the below schools need to apply through the school
- Arbour Vale School - free school meals
- Baylis Court School - free school meals
- Godolphin Junior School - free school meals
- Phoenix Infant Academy - free school meals
- Priory School contact details
- Western House Academy
Children attending the following schools apply through the council's website
- any other Slough school
- Cranbury College (Reading)
- Great Holland Primary School (Bracknell)
- Hamilton School (Reading)
- Maiden Erlegh School in Reading (Reading)
- Maiden Erlegh School (Wokingham)
- Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge (Oxfordshire)
- Oak Tree School (Wokingham)
- Trevelyan Middle School (Windsor)
Data 2022
(Source DfE School Census)
The data below is taken from the School Census, which covers a wide range of information on the characteristics of schools and the pupils within them. All schools that are open on Census day (usually in mid-January) are required to submit a return. Entitlement to free school meals is determined by the receipt of income-related benefits.
Percentage of nursery school pupils eligible for and claiming FSM
Percentage of primary school pupils eligible for and claiming FSM
Percentage of secondary school pupils eligible for and claiming FSM
Percentage of special school pupils eligible for and claiming FSM
