Every Lunch Matters LB

A big thanks to California’s SB 129 (School Meals for All), which provides approximately 6% of a student's lunch. There's still a lot more work to be done! For school year 2021-22, the USDA has granted the waiver to serve students free of charge as a transition out of the pandemic. Hopefully more changes will be made in the next year to support feeding children on the federal level.

Info from the district on how any family can get a free meal

Meals Now Free for All Local Children, See New Schedule An announcement by the federal government this week will allow the Long Beach Unified School District to again offer free meals to all local children ages 1 to 18. The school district also has revised meal service hours.

LBUSD MEALS UPDATE

The Long Beach Unified School District, which has been offering breakfasts and lunches at 34 sites during school closures, will add a supper meal at 27 of those sites starting Monday, May 4. All three meals (breakfast, lunch and supper) will be distributed during the usual meal service hour of 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The schools offering all three meals include Addams, Avalon, Birney, Bixby, Burbank, Chavez, Dooley, Garfield, Gompers, Grant, Harte, Herrera, King, Lafayette, Lincoln, Lindbergh, McKinley, Oropeza, Riley, Roosevelt, Signal Hill, Smith, Twain, Washington, Webster, Whitter and Willard.

Seven other schools will continue to offer breakfast at lunch, but not supper, during the same meal service hour of 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Those schools are Emerson, Gant, Henry, Hughes, MacArthur, Marshall and Rogers.

Parents can continue to pick up meals without children present at any of the 34 serving locations with some form of documentation that shows the names of their children to match the number of meals requested.

The Long Beach Unified School District’s free meal service for children ages 1 to 18 will continue during next week’s April 13 to 17 spring recess but will not be offered this Friday, April 10 due to LBUSD’s Admission Day holiday.

Lunches and breakfasts will continue to be offered from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the usual locations, which include Addams, Avalon, Birney, Bixby, Burbank, Chavez, Dooley, Emerson, Gant, Garfield, Gompers, Grant, Harte, Henry, Herrera, King, Lafayette, Lincoln, Lindbergh, Longfellow, MacArthur, Marshall, McKinley, Muir, Riley, Rogers, Roosevelt, Signal Hill, Smith, Stevenson, Twain, Washington, Whittier and Willard.

LBUSD Update: LBUSD will provide meals to go for children ages one 1 to 18 during the school closure period at these school locations: Addams, Avalon, Birney, Bixby, Burbank, Chavez, Dooley, Emerson, Gant, Garfield, Gompers, Grant, Harte, Henry, Herrera, King, Lafayette, Lincoln, Lindbergh, Longfellow, MacArthur, Marshall, McKinley, Muir, Riley, Rogers, Roosevelt, Signal Hill, Smith, Stevenson, Twain, Washington, Whittier and Willard. View a map at lbschools.net under ABOUT > Map.

Meals are provided Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

These meals are free to students regardless of which school they attend. No paperwork is required. Children must be present for meals to be provided.

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