In fact, Schwartz now notes, that’s not what her data have turned up.
Her group studied some 600 middle-school students. Over three years, students from 12 different schools — in fifth, sixth and seventh grades — were asked about their breakfasts. Throughout the study about 34 to 44 percent of all students said they regularly ate breakfast at home. Up to 17 percent, or almost one in every six kids, regularly ate breakfast at school. Overall, about one in every 10 kids reported downing breakfasts both at home and at school.