---
title: "Georgia Insights (GaDOE) Free and Reduced Price Meal Eligibility — the share of K-12 enrolled students eligible for Free"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/education/free_reduced_lunch"
tags: ["education"]
---

# Georgia Insights (GaDOE) Free and Reduced Price Meal Eligibility — the share of K-12 enrolled students eligible for Free

`GET /api/v1/education/free_reduced_lunch`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org`
- URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/free_reduced_lunch`
- Auth: none declared

Georgia Insights (GaDOE) Free and Reduced Price Meal Eligibility — the share of K-12 enrolled students eligible for Free or Reduced-price Lunch (FRL) under the USDA National School Lunch Program, for every Georgia public school, district/system, and the state, fiscal years 2013-2026. A widely used proxy for student economic disadvantage. Eligibility is income-based per the USDA Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines: free meals at or below 130% of the federal poverty level, reduced-price between 130% and 185%; the combined FRL rate counts students up to the 185% threshold. This is the broad income/application-based eligibility measure — the automatic categorical-eligibility SUBSET (students certified without an application via SNAP/TANF/foster/homeless/migrant/Medicaid) is the companion topic direct_certification.

**Filterable categorical columns** (comma-separated values union; multiple columns AND together):
- `reporting_status` — one of: `not_participating`, `reported`, `suppressed_privacy_band`

**Detail levels available:** districts, schools, states (default: `schools`)

**Year coverage:** 2013–2026 (14 years, no gaps)

**NULL handling:** suppressed cells are NULL (not zero); zero is a real value.

**Source:** Georgia Insights (GaDOE) — Free and Reduced Price Meal Eligibility

## Query parameters

- `year` integer, nullable: Exact year
- `year_min` integer, nullable: Inclusive lower bound
- `year_max` integer, nullable: Inclusive upper bound
- `district_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA district codes (e.g. `601,602`)
- `school_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA school codes. Combine with `district_code` for unique school keys.
- `county_fips` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. `13121,13067`)
- `tract_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 11-digit census tract GEOIDs (e.g. `13121011100`)
- `block_group_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 12-digit census block group GEOIDs (e.g. `131210111001`)
- `demographic` string, nullable: Comma-separated demographic codes (e.g. `all,black,hispanic`)
- `detail` string, nullable: Detail level (whatever the topic publishes — e.g. schools, districts, counties, or states).
- `limit` integer, nullable: Page size
- `offset` integer: Page offset
- `columns` string, nullable: Comma-separated output columns to return (fact columns plus joined dimension attributes). Defaults to all.
- `format` 'json' | 'csv' | 'parquet': Response format: json | csv | parquet

## Response `200`

Paginated rows. JSON returns an envelope with `data` and `pagination`; CSV/Parquet return raw bytes with `X-Total-Count` header.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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