Number of schools reached by National School Nutrition Programme
This dataset contains the number of public schools per financial year where children were fed through the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa and the nine provinces. The NSNP aims to reach public schools located in lower socioeconomic areas (or quintile 1 - 3 schools). Note: the data is patchy and incomplete because there is no one source. The NSNP produced annual reports up to 2013/2014. After that information on the number of schools reached per year was not published in one place or consistently. The information from 2014/2015 onwards was extracted from the annual reports of the Department of Basic Education, the provincial education departments and, in the case of 2025/2026, a parliamentary presentation by the NSNP in parliament.
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The data
11 rows, 11 columns.
- year Category
- Financial year. Starts 1 April, ends 31 March 2009/2010, 2011/2012, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2020/2021, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2025/2026
- eastern_cape Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Eastern Cape 3968 – 5504
- free_state Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Free State 764 – 1271
- gauteng Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Gauteng 1068 – 1549
- kwazulu-natal Number
- 4264 – 5391
- limpopo Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Limpopo 3181 – 3848
- mpumalanga Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Mpumalanga 1520 – 1687
- northern_cape Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Northern Cape 365 – 778
- north_west Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in North West 1225 – 1438
- western_cape Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in Western Cape 948 – 1069
- south_africa Number
- Number of schools where children received meals in South Africa 19383 – 21453
First rows
| year | eastern_cape | free_state | gauteng | kwazulu-natal | limpopo | mpumalanga | northern_cape | north_west | western_cape | south_africa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009/2010 | 5491 | 1271 | 1549 | 4264 | 3181 | 1589 | 778 | 1225 | 997 | 20345 |
| 2011/2012 | 5130 | 1181 | 1464 | 5248 | 3848 | 1687 | 456 | 1423 | 1016 | 21453 |
| 2013/2014 | 3968 | 1157 | 1445 | 5051 | 3287 | 1633 | 456 | 1438 | 948 | 19383 |
| 2014/2015 | 19800 | |||||||||
| 2015/2016 | 1167 | 5277 | 3845 | 1652 | 1023 | 21177 | ||||
| 2017/2018 | 21277 | |||||||||
| 2018/2019 | 21134 | |||||||||
| 2020/2021 | 21189 | |||||||||
| 2022/2023 | 21156 | |||||||||
| 2023/2024 | 19785 | |||||||||
| 2025/2026 | 5504 | 764 | 1068 | 5391 | 3507 | 1520 | 365 | 1316 | 1069 | 20504 |
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