Shares of all U.S. high school students, and of PISA sample, by free and reduced-price lunch (FRPL) percentages of their schools, with average PISA reading and math scores, by FRPL percentages of schools

(a) (b) (c) (d)
Share of students eligible for FRPL in student’s school Share of all U.S. high school students, by share of students in school who are FRPL-eligible, 20072008  Share of PISA 2009 sample in high schools, by school percent of students eligible for FRPL Average U.S. PISA reading score, by school percent of students eligible for FRPL Average U.S. PISA math score, by school percent of students eligible for FRPL
(a) 75 percent or more 9% 16% 449 437
(b) 50 to 74.9 percent 22 24 472 461
(c) 25 to 49.9 percent 36 36 502 488
(d) Less than 25 percent 30 24 538 533
(e) No data available 3
(f) All 100% 100% 495 484
(g) PISA average scores, weighted by actual share of schools with specific FRPL-eligible ranges (columns c and d, weighted by column a) 501 491

Source: NCES (2012), Table A-13-1 (for column a); authors' analysis of OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 database (for columns b–d)

View the underlying data on epi.org.