Price of lunch up 10 cents in Aberdeen schools

The Aberdeen School District will raise the price of lunch 10 cents in the coming school year.

Lunch in pre-school and elementary school will go from $2.30 to $2.40. In secondary schools, the price goes from $2.65 to $2.75.

This is the first increase since 2012.

The overall percentage of Aberdeen district students receiving free or reduced price lunches through government subsidy programs was 71 percent as of May 2014. In the district overall, there are 3,327 students enrolled. Of those, 2,071 are on free lunch and 275 on reduced lunch.

There are nine schools counted in the district, which includes Central Park Elementary, the school with the lowest number of students on reduced and free lunches. It is the only school with under 50 percent on both, and it’s just under, with 49 percent.

Harbor High School, A.J. West and Stevens Elementary Schools have the highest percentages of students on both.

Here is a list with the specific numbers; all figures are from May 2014 and were supplied by the district:

Central Park Elementary: of 199 students, 86 qualify for free lunch, 12 for reduced, or 49 percent for both

Stevens Elementary: of 517 students, 406 qualify for free lunch, 47 for reduced, or 88 percent for both.

Robert Gray Elementary: of 312 students, 219 qualify for free lunch, 33 for reduced, or 81 percent for both

McDermoth Elementary: of 370 students, 195 qualify for free lunch, 28 for reduced, or 60 percent for both

A.J. West Elementary: of 423 students, 330 qualify for free lunch, 31 for reduced, or 85 percent for both

Miller Junior High: of 458 students, 269 qualify for free lunch, 35 for reduced, or 66 percent for both

Hopkin Preschool: of 94 students, 66 qualify for free lunch, 3 for reduced, or 73 percent for both (all 9 students listed at the sub-category of Snug Harbor qualify for free lunch. Snug Harbor is the day care for the children of students at Harbor High).

Harbor High School: of 112 students, 88 qualify for free lunch, 10 for reduced, or 88 percent for both

Aberdeen High School: of 833 students, 403 qualify for free lunch, 76 for reduced, or 58 percent for both.

Erin Hart, 360-537-3932, ehart@thedailyworld.com. Twitter: @DW_Erin

Erin Hart, 360-537-3932, ehart@thedailyworld.com. Twitter: @DW_Erin