Quaker Valley students will have to pay 10 cents more for lunch next year.
All students will go from paying $2.50 to $2.60 for lunch while breakfast prices will remain at $1.50.
The school board approved the new meal prices during its meeting on Tuesday, June 25.
District officials said the price increase is necessary under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which requires participants of the National School Lunch Program to make efforts to equalize the cost of a federally reimbursed free lunch and breakfast and a fully paid lunch and breakfast.
Quaker Valley’s federal reimbursement was $2.92 for free lunch and $1.55 for free breakfast during the 2012-13 school year.
The law caps the required increase in the average paid meal price at 10 cents in any year.
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