Due to community eligible provision (CEP) – a federal program that allows schools to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost without collecting household applications to students in buildings with a high percentage of directly certified and categorically eligible students – students at all buildings will receive free lunch for the 2024-25 school year (as of December 1, 2023). This is in addition to the free breakfast that is already offered for the 2024-25 school year.

 

Funds must be used to purchase snacks, drinks, ice cream, extra entrees, and other items not on the menu. For more information, visit the Meal Prices and Payment Options page.

 

If you would like to request a refund for funds in your child's account, please visit the Account Balances Procedures page for more information.

We want all of our students to eat a nutritious morning meal each day! This is why we adopted a Breakfast in the Classroom model, to help reduce barriers for our students to access breakfast. Breakfast is served from 8:40 a.m.-9:00 a.m. in our elementary schools and beginning at 7:10 a.m. in our middle & high schools. Under Breakfast in the Classroom, our district served 264,811 meals in the 2022-2023 school year! More importantly, by providing a good start to the school day, Hempfield is helping to assure that our students can be focused for a day of learning!

Breakfast will be free for all students during the 2023-24 school year.

• mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
• fax: (202) 690-7442
• email: program.intake@usda.gov.

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