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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of students participating in the School Breakfast Program — AH‑04 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
21.0 percent (2020-21)

Target:
34.9 percent 

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
30.2 percent of students attending schools enrolled in the School Breakfast Program at the beginning of the school year participated in it through free, reduced price, and paid meals received in the school year 2017-18 

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Students participating in the School Breakfast Program, 2017-18 to 2020-21
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Total
30.2
30.0
23.6
21.0