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Title: Meal Prices. A Research Brief about School Year 2022-2023
Language: English
Authors: Brett Eiffes, Veronica Severn, Liana Washburn, Kate Schroeder, Kevin Conway, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) (USDA), Mathematica
Source: US Department of Agriculture. 2025.
Availability: US Department of Agriculture. 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250. Web site: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 4
Publication Date: 2025
Contract Number: 12319819A0009/12319819F0162
Document Type: Reports - Research
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Federal Government, State Government, Government Role, Federal Aid, Food, Costs, Low Income Students, At Risk Persons
Abstract: The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) are Federally assisted meal programs. They provide nutritious, low-cost or free meals to children in schools. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the school meal programs at the Federal level. State agencies administer the school meal programs in each State and Territory through agreements with local school food authorities (SFAs). SFAs are responsible for the school meal programs in one or more schools, and provide free, reduced-price, or paid school meals to children. FNS sends SFAs cash reimbursements to subsidize the cost of every school meal. The reimbursements are highest for free school meals and lowest for school meals that students pay for. This brief describes the prices of reduced-price and paid school meals in school year (SY) 2022-2023. An online survey was distributed to a nationally representative sample of 1,100 SFAs that participated in NSLP or SBP during SY 2022-2023, although the questions about meal prices excluded SFAs in California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Vermont because they had universal free school meals in SY 2022-2023.
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