Poverty and Welfare Free and Reduced Fee Lunch Programs at Public Schools As of October 1, 1997 County Free Lunch Reduced Fee Lunch Participants as % of all K-12 Students Indiana 221,001 53,838 27.9% Adams 639 250 16.9% Allen 12,525 2,645 29.8% Bartholomew 1,986 667 21.7% Benton 358 108 21.3% Blackford 516 172 28.6% Boone 752 301 12.9% Brown 407 99 20.0% Carroll 416 155 19.3% Cass 1,439 365 26.8% Clark 3,573 963 31.6% Clay 1,030 462 31.5% Clinton 1,408 322 26.4% Crawford 684 120 42.0% Daviess 959 237 26.3% Dearborn 1,252 276 17.6% Decatur 611 226 19.5% Dekalb 726 393 15.0% Delaware 4,970 1,236 34.7% Dubois 510 312 11.2% Elkhart 6,837 2,032 28.1% Fayette 1,136 217 31.6% Floyd 2,890 591 30.0% Fountain 563 223 23.6% Franklin 558 188 25.5% Fulton 431 168 21.1% Gibson 781 277 19.6% Grant 3,390 673 33.9% Greene 1,224 364 26.3% Hamilton 1,302 485 6.1% Hancock 710 275 10.0% Harrison 1,056 344 22.7% Hendricks 1,012 501 8.8% Henry 1,482 545 23.5% Howard 3,200 711 27.9% Huntington 892 428 19.4% Jackson 1,261 396 25.5% Jasper 703 303 20.4% Jay 864 347 30.1% Jefferson 1,180 322 30.4% Jennings 1,031 286 27.7% Johnson 1,865 868 14.0% Knox 1,659 399 32.8% Kosciusko 2,081 817 20.1% Lagrange 780 319 27.2% Lake 28,309 3,857 37.9% Laporte 3,620 1,169 26.1% Lawrence 1,652 357 26.7% Madison 5,403 1,034 31.6% Marion 44,791 8,605 42.5% Marshall 1,379 583 24.7% Martin 460 65 27.8% Miami 1,552 464 25.9% Monroe 2,351 624 22.1% Montgomery 1,080 303 20.7% Morgan 1,499 575 18.2% Newton 493 192 23.1% Noble 1,339 590 24.5% Ohio 126 23 14.7% Orange 833 263 31.7% Owen 638 210 26.8% Parke 604 173 28.9% Perry 575 136 20.8% Pike 502 147 28.9% Porter 2,565 981 13.7% Posey 777 184 20.0% Pulaski 444 160 22.6% Putnam 1,216 375 23.1% Randolph 996 318 26.0% Ripley 823 286 20.6% Rush 406 123 19.0% St. Joseph 11,465 2,204 35.0% Scott 1,277 216 36.0% Shelby 1,100 251 17.3% Spencer 562 186 19.7% Starke 1,215 379 35.4% Steuben 676 346 20.7% Sullivan 805 303 30.8% Switzerland 374 124 30.2% Tippecanoe 3,228 849 22.4% Tipton 326 93 14.0% Union 338 83 26.1% Vanderburgh 7,304 1,308 36.6% Vermillion 724 229 32.1% Vigo 4,896 1,246 36.2% Wabash 873 346 19.2% Warren 243 79 24.1% Warrick 1,178 374 17.0% Washington 1,201 342 32.2% Wayne 3,234 793 33.5% Wells 626 291 17.3% White 926 348 22.8% Whitley 348 263 12.0% ******