Free Breakfast and Lunch

The new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high poverty schools to offer both breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students while eliminating the traditional school meal application process.

Community eligibility benefits both schools and students. From the standpoint of schools, it reduces the administrative costs related to processing applications and enhances efficiency by eliminating the need to collect payments or use swipe cards during the meal service. More importantly, kids can rely on getting two nutritious meals a day so that they are ready and able to learn. What’s more, because all students are eating meals at no cost, community eligibility works to reduce stigma, and allows for better integration of meals into the school day.

This new Provision will mean each and every student Wilkes Elementary School will be served a “no charge” meal for both breakfast and lunch daily, and NO APPLICATION will be needed in order to qualify.