Free meals for all students continuing at 32 local schools; eligible families at other schools encouraged to apply for free or reduced-price meals
Press release from Alachua County Public Schools
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – For the upcoming school year, 32 local schools, including some charter schools, have been designated as federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) sites. That designation means that all students at the school are eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch, regardless of family income and without having to apply.
The CEP schools for the 2025-2026 school year are listed below:
A. Q. Jones Eastside High School Lake Forest Elementary Norton Elementary Sidney Lanier Alachua Elementary Einstein School (charter) Littlewood Elementary One Room School House (charter) Terwilliger Elementary Archer Elementary Foster Elementary Lincoln Middle Parker Elementary Westwood Middle Bishop Middle Glen Springs Elementary Mebane Middle Rawlings Elementary Williams Elementary Boulware (charter) Hawthorne Middle/High Metcalfe Elementary Resilience (charter) Caring and Sharing (charter) Idylwild Elementary Newberry Elementary Shell Elementary Duval Early Learning Academy Irby Elementary North Central FL. Public (charter) SIATech (charter)
Non-CEP schools
Families of students at 19 local schools that are not designated as CEP sites for the upcoming school year will need to meet income guidelines and fill out a family application for their children to receive free or reduced-price meals. Those non-CEP schools are Buchholz High, Chiles Elementary, Expressions Learning Arts Academy (charter), Ft. Clarke Middle, Gainesville High, Healthy Learning Academy (charter), Hidden Oak Elementary, High Springs Community, Kanapaha Middle, Meadowbrook Elementary, Micanopy Academy (charter), Newberry High, Oak View Middle, PAM@Loften High, PK Yonge Developmental School, Santa Fe High, Santa Fe College Academy of Science & Technology, Talbot Elementary, and Wiles Elementary.
Student meal prices for the 2025-2026 school year are:
- Reduced price: $0.30 (breakfast), $0.40 (lunch)
- Paid: $1.50 (breakfast), $2.50 (elementary lunch), $2.75 (secondary lunch).
More information and the online application are available on the district’s Food and Nutrition Services website at www.yourchoicefresh.com. Families needing assistance or more information can call (352) 955-7539, extension 1569.
Feed your own children and stop taking parental responsibility away from parents. Tired of paying for irresponsible parents.
But what about when parents can’t or don’t feed their children. What then? Just let the kids starve?
The cruelty is stunning.
Well lou that’s really Christian of you.
Proverbs 6:6-11
New International Version
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
11 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
How’s that? Christian enough for you?
Work and feed your OWN children!
Quoting the Old testament and pretending you’re a Christian
Yes. What do you quote? The Quran?
We are somehow one of the most powerful countries on the planet and yet food isn’t a basic human right for children. Make it make sense