Misson:

Enhance student’s ability to learn by providing  high quality nutritious meals  with professional and courteous service 

Goals of Child Nutrition: 

• enhancing students’ ability to learn by providing nutritional meals at school;
• encouraging life-long healthy eating habits consistent with the health education curriculum;
• offering students, a variety of nutritional foods;
• providing courteous service to students, employees and authorized visitors; and
• operating the food services program efficiently so that earnings may be used to reduce the cost of food, serve better food, or supplement the costs associated with the Community Eligibility Provision.

     (From Wilkes County Board Policy 6200)

Wilkes County Schools Child Nutrition is excited to be participating in Community Eligibility Provision for the 2023-2024 School Year. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids act of 2014 introduced the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to school districts operating the National School Lunch and Breakfast program in low income areas. School districts having at least forty percent of students identified through Food Nutrition Services (FNS), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), Medicaid Programs through Direct Certification or a student is classified by the District as Homeless, Runaway, Migrant, Foster, Head Start or Even Start in a school or combination of schools may qualify for CEP. CEP allows students to receive a breakfast and lunch meal free of charge each day they are in attendance. Child Nutrition reimbursement is calculated based on the percentage of students identified times one point six multiplier determining the percentage of meals claimed at the Free and Paid Rate.

Wilkes County Schools Child Nutrition submitted the required data collection on April 3, 2023.This data identified 51.85 percent of our students qualify for one of the programs allowable in qualifying for CEP. This percentage qualifies all twenty- two schools to participate in the CEP providing a free breakfast and lunch meal to all students regardless of participation in a Meal Benefit Program. Participation in this program takes away the need to collect free and reduced applications from students.