The Annual Survey of School Food Authorities: School Year 2024-25 report includes findings from the fourth survey in this series on SFA supply chain disruptions.
This study examined non-congregate meal service in the USDA summer meal programs, 2023 to 2024.
This dashboard visualizes key challenges school food authorities faced during the school year based on findings from the School Food Authority Survey on Supply Chain Disruption and Student Participation.
The goal of the dashboard is to provide national and state level visualization of meals served, participation, and funding data for the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program. The dashboard can be used by federal, state, and local organizations to assess trends in child nutrition program activity.
The Summer Food Service Program Integrity Study was designed to improve understanding of how state agencies provide oversight of the SFSP. To address the research objectives, the study examined such areas as sponsor and site selection, training and technical assistance, meal counting and claiming, and reviews. The findings, based on data collected in 2021, also offered some preliminary responses about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SFSP operations.
On Dec. 23, 2022, Congress authorized Summer EBT as a permanent, nationwide program. FNA is quickly developing more guidance on Summer EBT, and we look forward to working with our partners in states and local communities as we implement this program.
USDA has established procedures to annually collect and publish the paid lunch prices charged by school food authorities.
This data collection fulfills states’ reporting requirements and describes trends in program participation during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of an ongoing study series examining CN program operations, repurposed to collect waiver reports from all states.
State agencies competitively award subgrants to LEAs, SFAs or schools to purchase equipment, with a value of greater than $1,000.
This Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics study is the first comprehensive study since CEP became available nationwide in SY 2014-15. The study was designed to provide USDA with information about the impact of CEP and includes both an implementation and impact component.