Parents/carers of children attending a school (not a college) in York can apply for free school meals and the Pupil Premium online; see details of Free School Meal online applications.
Alternately you can complete a Free School Meal application form; if you want to have an application form sent to you by post, contact us on email: businesssupportschoolservices@york.gov.uk.
If you apply for Free School Meals through City of York Council, when we process your application, we'll:
- use your details to check your child's eligibility for free school meals by checking information held by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education; this quick online check means we can often confirm eligibility immediately
- write to you asking for proof of benefit if necessary - all proofs must be dated within the last 3 months (or for tax credits, the current financial year) and clearly state your entitlement to a qualifying benefit
- not be able to return original proofs to you, so you should only send copies
- write to you to informing you of the outcome
- inform your child's school of their eligibility
We'll use and process the information you provide for the purposes of your application.
If you apply through a different checking service linked to your child’s school, their application process can be confirmed with the school or checking service.
Free school meal claims
We treat all claims made through City of York Council in confidence, and schools provide the same meals whether they're paid for or provided free.
Your child doesn't have to take up a meal every day - you can still provide a 'pack up' as and when you want to.
If your school does not sign up for the City of York Council eligibility scheme, the school may require you to apply for free school meals direct to them or to their provider. Please check with school whether their free school applications are made through the council or through the school.
Free School Meal online applications
If your child attends one of the following schools, you can apply for Free School Meals on the appropriate website:
- Acomb Primary School
- All Saints RC School
- Applefields School
- Archbishop Holgate’s School
- Archbishop Of Yorks CE Junior - apply online through Parent Portal
- Badger Hill Primary School
- Bishopthorpe Infant School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Burton Green Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Carr Infant School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Carr Junior School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Clifton Green Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Clifton with Rawcliffe Primary School
- Copmanthorpe Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Danesgate Community - apply online through Parent Portal
- Dringhouses Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Dunnington CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Elvington CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Fishergate Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Fulford School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Haxby Road Primary Academy
- Headlands Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Hempland Primary School
- Heworth CE Primary School
- Hob Moor Community Primary School
- Hob Moor Oaks School
- Huntington Primary Academy
- Huntington School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Joseph Rowntree School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Knavesmire Primary School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Lakeside Primary School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Lord Deramores Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Manor CE Academy - apply online through Parent Portal
- Millthorpe School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Naburn Church Of England Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- New Earswick Primary School
- Osbaldwick Primary School
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs RC Primary School
- Park Grove Primary Academy
- Poppleton Ousebank Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Poppleton Road Primary School
- Ralph Butterfield Primary School- apply online through Parent Portal
- Robert Wilkinson Primary School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Rufforth Primary School
- Scarcroft Primary School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Skelton Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- St Aelred's Catholic Primary School
- St Barnabas' CE Primary School
- St George's RC Primary School
- St Lawrence's CE Primary School
- St Mary's CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- St Oswald's CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- St Paul's CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- St Wilfrid's RC Primary School
- Stockton On The Forest Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Tang Hall Primary School
- Vale of York Academy - apply online through Parent Portal
- Westfield Community Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Wheldrake with Thorganby CE Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Wigginton Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- Woodthorpe Primary School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
- Yearsley Grove Primary School - apply online through Parent Portal
- York High School - North Yorkshire Council Free School Meals application
Also see
Benefits appointments
Contact us for an appointment to get benefits advice in person at West Offices.
Inclusive Education Service
Free school meals appeal
Get details of York Hungry Minds appeal, raising funds to provide universal free school meals for children in York’s primary schools, helping all children to have the same opportunities to learn and thrive, no matter the circumstances where they grow up.