Table 7. Percent of public elementary schools indicating that various foods were available for sale at school stores or snack bars, by selected school characteristics: 2005

Calories In, Calories Out: Food and Exercise in Public Elementary Schools, 2005

NCES 2006-057
May 2006

Table 7. Percent of public elementary schools indicating that various foods were available for sale at school stores or snack bars, by selected school characteristics: 2005
	Type of food available at school stores or snack bars
		Nondairy beverage				Snack foods
School characteristic	At least one of the listed foods	100% fruit or vegetable juice	Sports/ fruit drinks that are not 100% juice	Soft drinks	Bottled water	Candy	Low-fat salty snacks	Salty snacks that are not low in fat	Low-fat cookies/ baked goods	Cookies/ baked goods not low in fat
All public elementary schools	31	17	12	6	17	11	19	14	13	15
Enrollment size
Less than 300	32	16	13	12	18	15	21	17	13	15
300 to 499	34	20	12	5	17	11	22	15	13	19
500 or more	28	16	11	3	16	7	16	10	13	12
School locale
City	31	15	9	4	15	10	18	10	13	14
Urban fringe	32	17	13	3	18	8	20	14	13	18
Town	29	16	10	5	11	8	21	15	12	12
Rural	32	21	16	12	20	16	19	17	13	15
Region
Northeast	33	19	12	3!	21	9	26	20	16	23
Southeast	36	23	16	6	21	12	20	16	16	18
Central	27	15	9	6	12	10	16	12	9	13
West	31	15	12	7	18	11	18	10	12	12
Percent minority enrollment
Less than 6 percent	26	15	10	7	15	8	17	12	11	14
6 to 20 percent	31	20	14	4	19	8	22	14	15	16
21 to 49 percent	30	13	9	5	12	10	17	11	11	16
50 percent or more	33	18	12	6	18	13	19	14	12	15
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
Less than 35 percent	29	16	11	4	18	6	19	12	13	15
35 to 49 percent	27	14	11	5	8	7	15	13	11	18
50 to 74 percent	34	18	14	8	18	17	21	16	13	15
75 percent or more	35	20	12	8	20	13	21	14	14	15
Foods sold to generate funds
Yes	41	27	17	5	25	12	26	19	20	23
No	24	11	8	6	12	10	14	10	8	10
Don’t know	42	24	17	5	22	10	27	16	17	19
! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variations is greater than 50 percent.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), "Foods and Physical Activity in Public Elementary Schools: 2005," FRSS 87, 2005.

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