Meal Information
Breakfast: No Charge for Students/ Adults: $3.15
Lunch: $2.50 for Full Pay Students
Adults: $5.38
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a school meal funding option from USDA that enables a school to provide free meals to all students, without the necessity of completing applications for individual eligibility. CEP status is determined by the percentage of students from households receiving public benefits.
This is the second year in which CEP in South Carolina was expanded to include students who receive Medicaid benefits, which enabled 82 GCS schools to continue to qualify for the 2025-26 school year. There is a four-year eligibility guarantee, which means the 81 schools may remain in the program at least through the 2026-27 school year as not all schools were re-grouped.
All GCS schools currently offer free breakfast. For the 2025-26 school year, every school in the district EXCEPT the following will be CEP schools, offering free lunches to all students:
Augusta Circle Elementary
Bell's Crossing Elementary
Buena Vista Elementary
Mauldin High
Monarch Elementary
Oakview Elementary
Pelham Road Elementary
Reedy Laurel Elementary
Riverside High
Riverside Middle
Rudolph Gordon School
Stone Academy
Food Service Manager: Dennis Worley (dworley@greenville.k12.sc.us)