Table 7.4a. Percentage of 4th-graders eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, by school locale and race/ethnicity: 2005

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Table 7.4a.

Percentage of 4th-graders eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, by school locale and race/ethnicity: 2005

Race/ethnicity	Total	Central city	Urban fringe/ large town	Rural/small town
Total ¹	41	54	32	41
White	24	25	17	32
Black	70	75	60	78
Hispanic	73	79	66	72
Asian/Pacific Islander	33	42	25	25
American Indian/Alaska Native	65	57	52	73
¹ Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown. NOTE: To be eligible for the National School Lunch Program, a student must be from a household with an income at or below 185 percent of the poverty level for reduced-price lunch or at or below 130 percent of the poverty level for free lunch. School locale categories differ from those in table 7.1. The four CCD locales are collapsed into three, with large towns included in the urban fringe category and small towns included in the rural category. See Appendix C: Guide to Source for more information. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Reading Assessment, NAEP Data Explorer.