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Board approves small increase in lunch prices; district outlines expanded summer meal service
Summary
The board approved a modest increase to student and staff lunch prices, citing rising food costs, and staff described an extensive summer meal schedule with community sites and mobile routes to deliver free meals.
The Superior School District board approved an increase in paid lunch prices effective July 1, 2025, after the food service director explained rising food and operational costs and a goal of modest, predictable annual increases.
Jamie, the district’s food-service director, told the board the increase equates to roughly $26 per student per year and is intended to be a smaller annual rise rather than periodic large increases. “What this comes to is about $26 per year per student,” Jamie said, and noted food costs rose about $60,000 in the past year.
Staff emphasized protections for low-income families: the district eliminated reduced-price lunch charges in a prior year so students who qualify for free or reduced-price benefits now receive meals at no charge, and the district provides free breakfast for all students at every school. Jamie said the summer meal program will begin the week after school ends and will include on-site feeding at school summer programs, mobile meal van stops and partnership with parks-and-rec sites; staff budgeted to serve an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 meals across community sites.
Board members voted in favor of the price change and thanked food service staff for summer program planning; staff said flyers and schedules for summer sites would be circulated to families and the community.
