Education
BY ELLE BENT & HALEY MCLEOD
Some Austin ISD students to receive free meals regardless of eligibility
Also of note
AISD officials work with local agencies to identify all children who are potentially eligible for free meals through state funded programs. AISD will notify these identified families that they do not need to complete an application. Any family that does not receive a letter and feels they should have may contact Austin ISD Food Service at 512-414-0251. Families are urged to also contact their school with changes in household member employment or if the household size increases. Such changes may make the children of the household eligible for benefits if the household’s income falls at or below the current income eligibility requirements.
program and in need of free or reduced-cost meals, can get receive them if: • Receiving state-funded benefits, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families • Enrolled in foster care or are homeless • Approved by AISD’s application for free or reduced-cost meals.
Free breakfast and lunch is offered to Austin ISD students at 77 participating campuses during the 2024-25 school year. The meals are offered through the Community Eligibility Provision program, a federally funded meal service that provides specific schools with the ability to serve free meals to all students with no application required. Students attending schools not eligible for the
The following is a list of all 77 participating schools:
Elementary Schools
Middle Schools
High Schools Akins ECHS
In AISD, 37% of students are eligible for free lunch.
Palm Pecan Springs Perez Pickle Pillow Pleasant Hill Rodriguez
Allison Andrews
Harris Hart Houston Jordan Joslin Kocurek Langford
Bedichek Burnet Covington Dobie Garcia YMLA Lively Marshall Martin
Crockett ECHS Eastside ECHS Garza Independence GPA at Navarro
1 in every 4 children in Central Texas faces food insecurity
Barrington Blackshear Blanton Blazier Boone Brown Campbell Casey Cook Cunningham
SOURCE: CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK, TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
GPA at Travis International LBJ ECHS Navarro ECHS Northeast ECHS Travis ECHS
Sanchez St. Elmo
Linder McBee Menchaca Norman-Sims Oak Hill Oak Springs Odom, Ortega Overton Padron
Mendez Paredes Sadler Means YWLA Webb
Looking back
Travis Heights Walnut Creek Widen Williams Winn Wooldridge Wooten Zavala
Over 30 campuses in AISD also provided free meals during the summer break to children under age 18 and students with disabilities up to age 21 in need of food. Children did not have to be enrolled in AISD to receive the free meals, administered by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Dawson Galindo Govalle Graham Guerrero-Thompson
Uphaus ECC Alternative Learning Center Rosedale School Other Campuses
SOURCE AUSTIN ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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