(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
The Kenosha Unified School District is participating in the Free Breakfast and Lunch program for the 2025-2026 school year. This initiative, known as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), ensures that all students enrolled at the following schools can access the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program at no charge.
Household applications are not required to receive free meals. However, applications may be distributed to gather household income data for other programs that require this information.
The following schools are offering free breakfast and lunch for all students:
- Bose Elementary
- Bradford High School
- Brass Community
- Bullen Middle School
- Chavez
- Forest Park Elementary
- Frank Elementary
- Grant Elementary
- Grewenow Elementary
- Harborside
- Harvey Elementary
- Hillcrest
- Indian Trail High School & Academy
- Jeffery Elementary
- Kenosha School of Language
- Lakeview K-8 Academy
- Lakeview Technical
- Lance Middle School
- Mahone Middle School
- Nash Elementary
- Pleasant Prairie Elementary
- Prairie Lane Elementary
- Reuther High School
- Roosevelt Elementary
- Ruth Harman Academy
- Southport Elementary
- Somers Elementary
- Strange Elementary
- Tremper High School
- Washington Middle School
- Whittier Elementary
For more information, please contact:
Emily V. Riedler, MS, RD, CD
Food Service Director
Kenosha Unified School District
3600 52nd Street, Kenosha, WI 53144
Phone: 262-359-6382
Email: eriedler@kusd.edu
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations, this institution is prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information is available in languages other than English. Individuals with disabilities who require alternative communication formats (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language) should contact the state or local agency administering the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, available online at USDA Complaint Form or by contacting USDA’s office. Complaints can be submitted via mail, fax, or email.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
24 Responses
This is how it should be every year. For some kids, it’s the only meal they have everyday. Now if only kusd food service would let kids take extra fruit or vegetables instead of just throwing them away (some times, right in front of the child that asked to have an extra piece).
“Free lunch” doesn’t exist. If the kids parents suck and don’t provide food start taking their phones and food stamps away.
Its phones of course. I am 50 and they these programs before they had cell phones.
Maybe we should send the kids to the fields that are empty of workers so they can learn nothing is free
False, these programs existed in the past ONLY for families that financially qualified.
Now it’s free lunch for everyone. And as someone already stated, it’s not magically “free”.
The parents poor choices shouldn’t be taken out on the children.
Parents poor choices shouldn’t be taken out on taxpayers including all those hard-working people who have no choice but to have money taken out of their paychecks to hand free lunches to somebody else’s kids. If this is the only meal the kids receive all day, take those kids away from them. Letting them go in the fields to work doesn’t sound like a bad idea, if farmers have to make payments on someone Elsa’s kids, they should at least get partial ownership of them. If I involuntarily was paying for someone else’s car, bet your ass I’d get to drive it.
Let me guess… your anti abortion as well.
I bet you voted Yes for the referendum too….
There has to be a better way, then just throwing it away, let the children eat, I don’t understand the whole “throwing it away” instead of “giving it away”
It happens everyday at every school because the food service workers are told they will be fired if they give it away instead of throwing it away.
DEFUND THE WELFARE SYSTEM. ALL OF IT!
You are likely member of the cult that demands that all abortions, even those for women who are victims of rape or incest, be banned. These unwanted children need to be fed.
unwanted children ? does this look like the horn of Africa ? as they get in line with their latest iPhone and go home to their 80″ TV and Xbox, don’t fool yourself. Us tax payers are foot’in the bill.
Yup. Murder is murder, Satanist.
There are literally no unfed children in the United States. A total canard.
I think the article said “no matter the income,” therefore it has nothing to do with the walfare system!!! Maybe you should read it again.
“Free food” IS welfare.
The food is horse sh7t. I feel bad for the kids who really need it. Breakfast is dried out items like Honey Buns, lunch is moldy.
Then make sure you pack your child’s lunch!!!!
…all the rest of the schools in the county that “aren’t poor” don’t qualify for this program.
These “not poor” schools run deficits each year in their breakfast and lunch programs because of “poor” parents who don’t pay up during or at the end of each year.
These schools have struggled with deciding to just buy lunch for all instead of charging those that can pay and “eating” the debts of those that don’t or can’t.
No good answers either way.
Ultimately it’s our own state laws that don’t fund and require free school food for all.
Are you reading this Amanda ??
Sooooooooo, you’re saying we need MORE government?! Holy shit. You people are retarded. MORE government is what got us here. Defund it ALLLLLLLLL!
Only in America are the starving children overweight
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What fatty downvoted! Name yourself, fatty coward!