The Lapeer Community Schools Board of Education has approved an increase in the price of lunches at all middle and high schools in the District for the 2011-12 school year.
Elementary lunch prices remain the same.
The increase is required by the federally mandated Healthy Hungry Free Kids Act of 2010. School districts that have an average full paid price point below the federal average free reimbursement rate of $2.46 are being required to increase prices over time to this level. Lapeer’s current average lunch price is $2.35.
The lunch price increase will average about 8 cents for as many as 600 students in the middle schools and high schools of the approximately 3,500 lunch meals served daily.
Base lunch prices for the coming school year will rise:
At the Middle Schools
From $2.15 to $2.50 at the crisp station
From $2.15 to $2.25 at three other food stations
At the High Schools
From $2.15 to $2.50 at the play bowls station
From $3.00 to $3.25 at the redi set deli station
Nearly 47 percent of the District’s students qualify for free or reduced meals due to their parents’ household income and family size. LCS also will again next year offer Reduced qualified students no charge for lunch meals.
Lapeer Community Schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade, will continue to offer free breakfast to all students.
