Poverty is an ingredient as well, with half of the students qualifying for subsidized lunches.

Data on school demography, however, usually disclose only pupils eligible for subsidized lunches.

In Carbon Hill, population 2,100, more than 60 percent of the students are on subsidized lunches.

There are 90,200 schools serving subsidized lunches, as against 37,400 offering breakfasts.

More than 90 percent of its students are black, and 85 percent receive a subsidized lunch.

Camden has the state's highest homicide and poverty rates; nearly 90 percent of its students qualify for subsidized lunches.

In 1985, just before the integration plan took effect, 21 percent of district children qualified for subsidized lunches.

Among all grade levels, 16 percent of students are eligible for federally subsidized lunch.

It is a challenge; 73 percent get subsidized lunches.

About 240,000 of the 1.5 million New York schoolchildren in the school lunch program would lose their subsidized lunches, state officials say.