Success Stories

Donegal School District in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, created a cooking club this school year for seventh and eighth grade students. The district’s dietetic interns and café managers, take immense pride helping the students learn each week and say it’s been an extremely rewarding experience for everyone. 

During their annual food show, Prince William County Schools showed what’s possible when school nutrition professionals, parents, students, school meals partners, and the food industry work together.  

In 2023, USDA awarded National School Lunch Equipment Assistance Grants to Graves County School District, which allowed them to upgrade kitchen ovens that had been in use for over 15 years.

Individuals like Angela Adkins dedicate their careers to providing kids with delicious meals that give kids the nutrition they need to grow and thrive. Her team of school nutrition professionals dish up meals for over 1,700 students every day in Carroll County, Kentucky.

Plant Powered Fridays, launched by Mayor Eric Adams, is the latest New York Citywide initiative giving more than one million students a new outlook on meals centering fruits and vegetables

Every year, students in Houston County get excited for one of Georgia’s biggest annual events held right in their backyard – the Georgia National Fair. But when a school nutrition program chooses to celebrate the fair, of course, the focus is on the food and fun!

With partnerships between community and industry, and support from USDA and others, Hillsborough County’s School Nutrition Program has not just weathered the storm in service to the kids who count on them but has never stopped looking for ways to innovate and improve.