2025/2026 SCHOOL YEAR INFORMATION
PUBLIC RELEASE
Warren County School District announces its policy for free and reduced-price meals for children served in schools under the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program. For School Year 2025-2026 Warren County School District will continue participation in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). No further action is required of you. This USDA provision allows your child(ren) to participate in the school meal programs without having to pay a fee or submit a meal application.
CEP is a key provision of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools and school districts in low-income areas to eliminate school meal applications and serve breakfast and lunch at no charge to all enrolled students. CEP gives food service professionals more time to focus on preparing nutritious meals that their students will enjoy and gives students more time to eat those meals by cutting down on time spent in the lunch line. More importantly, by offering all students a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost, CEP helps ensure more students come to class well-nourished and ready to learn.
Supper is also offered to all children ages 1-18 at no charge. These meals are given out at the end of the school day and need to be eaten at school.
Children need healthy meals to learn. Warren County School Nutrition offers healthy meals every school day. Breakfast and lunch meals will follow the USDA guidelines for healthy school meals, so please encourage students to participate. "In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, color, national origin, age or disability."
Parents or guardians who need further information may contact Terri Mullican, Child Nutrition Program Director at 931.668.4022 ext.11804.
FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROGRAM
The Warren County School Nutrition Program is delighted to have been selected from many district applicants to administer the FFVP for the 25/26 school year at the following sites:
Bobby Ray Elementary and West Elementary
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The Warren County School Nutrition Department is committed to provide meals that are nutritious, appetizing, and beneficial by implementing standards, procedures and requirements that are set forth by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Tennessee State Department of Education (TNDOE). The Warren County School Nutrition Program is dedicated to this commitment by offering high quality meals with a variety of Meat/Meat Alternates, 100% Fresh Fruit and Vegetable varieties, Whole Grains, and Low-Fat Milk options. We believe that school meals are critical to student health and provide nutrition needed to young minds throughout the day that aids significantly in learning. School meals have been shown to reduce food insecurity, obesity rates, and poor health. (FRAC) Our continuous goal is to provide meals that will gain and retain student participation, while ensuring that the program is self-supported financially.
The National School Breakfast Program (NSBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are federally assisted meal programs, that focus on providing students low cost or no-cost meals that are nutritionally balanced each day. The National School Lunch Program was founded under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1946. The National School Breakfast Program began as a pilot project in 1966 and was made a permanent program by Congress in 1975. Both programs require SFAs who are a part of the program to offer and serve Breakfast, Lunch, and Afterschool snacks in compliance with Federal meal pattern requirements. Specific food items served within these meal patterns are up to the School Food Authority, however they must meet all State, Federal, and Health Authority standards, practices, and health regulations.
The Warren County School Nutrition Program is an accredited SFA that takes part in the National School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program. It is our duty and requirement to abide by and implement all State, Federal, and Health Authority standards, practices, and health regulations.
For more information on the NSBP and NSLP, please visit:
https://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/nutrition-standards-school-meals
Non-Discrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and USDA civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its agencies, offices, employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA (not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by program or incident.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the state or local agency that administers the program or contact USDA through the Telecommunications Relay Service at 711 (voice and TTY). Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at How to File a Program Discrimination Complaint and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
- Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Mail Stop 9410, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
- Fax: (202) 690-7442; or
- Email: program.intake@usda.gov.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
Page updated: July 09, 2025
To file a complaint, follow the instructions listed in the Non-Discrimination Statement above.
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