Free and Reduced Price Meals (FARM)

Free and Reduced-Price Meals (FARM) Application and Family Economic Survey Form

School Year 2024--2025

10/3/2024 Notice: DCPS Families may have mistakenly received a letter from Titan School Solutions stating that your school is implementing a new option called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which would provide school breakfast and lunch at no cost. While breakfast remains universally free for all DCPS students, this message was sent in error and students who attend the schools listed below do not qualify for CEP. FNS apologizes for any confusion this may have caused.

The SY24-25 FARM Application is available here.

School breakfast, after-school snacks, and after-school supper meals are free for ALL DCPS students. The purpose of this form is to determine eligibility for students attending schools not participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). For students attending CEP schools, the information will be used to determine eligibility for other benefits.

Who Qualifies?

Students may qualify for free lunch benefits if they fall into one of the following categories:

1. Direct Certification. Students are part of households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) benefits or identified as a Foster child.

2. Meet the definition of homeless, runaway, or migrant. Students/families should contact their school counselor or the DCPS Homeless Liasion.

3. Income-Eligible. The household's gross income falls within the Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines (see below).

The below schools do NOT qualify for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) for SY 24-25 and therefore families must complete a FARM application to determine eligibility for free meals:

Brent Elementary School
Deal Middle School
Eaton Elementary School
Hardy Middle School
Hearst Elementary School
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
Jackson-Reed High School
Janney Elementary School
Key Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School
MacArthur High School
Mann Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Murch Elementary School
Oyster-Adams – Adams Campus
Oyster-Adams – Oyster Campus
Peabody Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Within A School – Goding
School Without Walls High School
Shepherd Elementary School
Stoddert Elementary School

See the Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines below if you believe your household qualifies:

Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines 24/25
Household Size	Annual	Monthly	Twice Per Month	Every Two Weeks	Weekly
1	$27,861	$2,322	$1,161	$1072	$536
2	$37,814	$3,152	$1,576	$1,455	$728
3	$47,767	$3,981	$1,991	$1,838	$919
4	$57,720	$4,810	$2,405	$2,220	$1,110
5	$67,673	$5,640	$2,820	$2,603	$1,302
6	$77,626	$6,469	$3,235	$2,986	$1,493
7	$87,579	$7,299	$3,650	$3,369	$1,685
8	$97,532	$8,128	$4,064	$3,752	$1,876
Each additional person	+$9,953	+$830	+$415	+$383	+$192

Please note the following information when completing a FARM application:

Only ONE APPLICATION PER HOUSEHOLD should be completed even if your students attend different schools. A household is considered all persons, related or unrelated, living at the same address.
Food and Nutrition Services only accepts FARM & Economic Survey Form applications from DCPS schools. If you or your child attends a charter or private school, please contact that school directly.
FARM applications for School Year 2023-2024 expired on June 30, 2024 and a new application is needed for School Year 2024-2025.
- The grace period for students who qualified for free lunch during the school year 2023-2024 will end on:
  - October 7, 2024 for K-12 students
  - October 10, 2024 for ECE (PK3-PK4) students