Study Finds Half of All Public School Children Are from Low-income Families

In a report released January 9, 2015, by the Southern Education Foundation, researchers found that 51 percent of children in public schools qualified for free or reduced-price lunches in 2013, which means that most of them were from low-income families. According to the report, a majority of students in 21 states, most of them in the South, are poor. In South Carolina, 58% of public school students are from low-income families.

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