Woodland School District
Nutrition Services
Reduced Lunch Price Analysis
May 28, 2014
The following analysis shows the impact of changing the Reduced Price Lunch from "$.40" to "$0" forgrades 4-12.
Currently the State of WA reimburses the District $.40 for each Reduced Price Lunch served to grades K-3.
Rate Per Meal
Projected
MealsServed
LocalRevenue
$0.40
StateRevenue
FederalRevenue
$2.69
TotalRevenue
Meal Category
Reduced Price Lunches K-3
11,809
$
-
4,724
31,766
36,490
Reduced Price Lunches 4-12
5,803
2,321
15,610
17,931
Totals
17,612
47,376
54,421
Reduced Price Lunches 4-12 (14.9% Increase)
6,666
17,932
18,475
49,698
The above data indicates that an increase of 863 lunches at the 4-12 reduced level would be revenue neutral. This is an average increase of five additional lunches per day. There are currently 93 students eligible for reduced lunch in grades 4-12. An average of 60 of these students are eating lunch everyday. An average of five of the 33 students who are not eating would need to eat to make up for the lost local revenue. This is a very reasonable estimation
Stacy found out through her research that there are only 4 school districts who are subsidizing the $.40 reduced lunch charge for grades 4-12. These are Port Angeles, Seattle, Federal Way and Renton. I heard from Seattle and Federal Way.