Free and reduced-price lunch
Free or low-cost school meals for children from low-income families under the National School Lunch Program; often used as a measure of poverty in schools.
- Also called
- FRL / FRPL
- Used in
- United States
- Topic
- Funding
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Related terms
- National School Lunch Program (NSLP) United States
- The federally funded programme, run by the USDA, that provides low-cost or free lunches in schools.
- Community eligibility provision (CEP) United States
- An option that allows high-poverty schools to serve free meals to all students without individual applications.
- Free school meals (FSM) All four UK nations (details may differ)
- Free lunches provided to pupils from low-income families or, in some cases, all pupils in certain year groups. FSM eligibility is widely used as a measure of disadvantage.
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