As part of the Community Eligibility Provision of Congress’s effort to bring services to impoverished areas, one program has become particularly successful.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
In the 2015–2016 school year, its second year of nationwide availability, more than 18,000 high-poverty schools, in nearly 3,000 school districts across the country, have adopted community eligibility, an option that allows qualifying schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students without collecting and processing individual school meal applications. This is an increase of about 4,000 schools compared to the prior year, further demonstrating the appeal of the new provision.
These schools, which serve more than 8.5 million children, represent just over half of all eligible schools, a strikingly high take-up rate for such a new federal program. Those figures are up from 14,214 schools — about 45 percent of those eligible — serving 6.7 million students in the 2014–2015 school year. Consistent with last year, take-up was higher among the highest-poverty schools, where nearly all children are already eligible for free or reduced-priced meals.
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The rates of adoption vary substantially, but they seem to lean toward poor states. The national average is 37%. The adoption rate in North Dakota is 100%, in West Virginia 86% and in Kentucky 80%. At the other end of the spectrum, the rate in New Hampshire is 8%, in Arkansas 10% and in Rhode Island 15%.
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