The Free School Meal Eligibility Checker allows parents to check their eligibility for free school meals and to help your school apply for pupil premium.
Parents do an online check by entering their personal details (including their National Insurance or National Asylum Seekers number) and the name and school of at least one child.
These details are processed via the Department for Education and a decision is immediately available online regarding FSM eligibility.
Schools that have "FSM administrators" configured will be able to see the results of all parents connected with their school.
For parents who are eligible for FSM, schools will be able to submit applications to claim pupil premium.
Please note that schools need to submit applications for free meals and pupil premium to the Local Authority - the results from the FSM eligibility checking service merely provide information to schools that some of the parents are eligible. It us up to each school to take the next steps.
User guide download
If you would like to be able to download and/or print this user guide, please click here to get the PDF version.
See next:
Setting up the FSM service for your school
Viewing eligibility check results
