U.S. national school lunch program: share of free or reduced lunches FY 1996-2022

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Abigail Tierney,
Mar 24, 2025
In the fiscal year of 2022, 96 percent of lunches supplied by public schools in the United States were either free or reduced in price. This is a decrease from the previous year, when 98.3 percent of all lunches were either free or reduced in price.

Share of total school lunches that were free or reduced under the national school lunch program in the United States from FY 1996 to FY 2022

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December 2022

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United States

Survey time period

FY 1996 to 2022

Supplementary notes

The fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30. FY 2022 data are preliminary

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