Students enjoy lunch at Lakes Middle School in 2019. The Coeur d'Alene School Board on Monday voted to increase the price of school meals. The increase accompanies the return of required payment for meals after two years of pandemic-era federal programs that made school meals free for all students.
August 25, 2022
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School meal payments return with higher cost
Cd'A School Board approves prices after federal funding for free lunches ends
After a two-year hiatus from having to pay for school meals, parents in the Coeur d’Alene School District will be paying higher prices for their kids to eat breakfast and lunch at school. The school board approved the price increase Monday during a special meeting. Breakfast for elementary school students will now cost $1.90 and middle and high school students will pay $2.10. The lunch price for elementary school students is now $3.15 and $3.50 for middle and high school students. "If we don't use those prices, we would need to get the difference somehow, but not through our program," Coeur d'Alene School District Director of Nutrition Services Ed Ducar said Wednesday.