Food & Nutrition

Longview Public Schools will be participating in a federal program as part of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program called Community Eligibility Program (CEP). This means that all students districtwide are eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no charge throughout the 2022-23 to 2025-26 school year regardless of family or household income. However, some of the education programs the district provides are funded by state dollars that require our schools to collect household information for all students attending CEP schools.   

While meals for all students will remain free again this year, we will ask families to fill out the Education Benefits Form. This form replaces the Free and Reduced-Price Meal Application. The information collected from the Education Benefits Form will ensure your child’s school receives the full amount of federal and state funding and ensures your child receives services they are entitled to when free and reduced-price applications are not required. These programs include before and after school academic and enrichment programs, fee waivers for college applications, admission tests and extra-curricular activities, and resources for classrooms, teachers and students, and many other benefits.    

• Download the form here!
• Online through the new student enrollment system
• Forms will be mailed to households in mid-August
• Available in each school office or Nutrition Services located at 2715 Lilac Street

Completed forms should be returned to your school office or Nutrition Services at 2715 Lilac Street. 

Great news! USDA approved Washington’s Summer and Children Under 6 P-EBT plans, and we have begun issuing benefits. Since federal rules have changed, the P-EBT Summer and Children Under 6 plans will assist different groups of children separately. The Longview School District qualifies for and participates in the Community Eligibility Provision so every child who attends school in person will receive a PEBT Card. This is the final school year for P-EBT due to the Public Health Emergency expiring May 11, 2023

For more information, or to contact the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, click here!