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School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study

Metadata Updated: May 8, 2025

This study is the first nationally representative, comprehensive assessment of the school meal programs since the updated nutrition standards for school meals were phased in beginning School Year 2012-2013. The study results are presented in four separate reports summarizing study findings related to (1) foodservice operations, (2) the nutrient content of school meals as offered and served, (3) meal costs and revenues, and (4) student participation, dietary intake and plate waste. A study methodology report that describes the study design, sampling and data collection and a Summary Report that provides a brief overview of the study and key findings from the various reports are also available.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Metadata Created Date August 4, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 4, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025
Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
Maintainer
Identifier USDA-FNS-148
Data First Published 2021-07-15
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2021-07-15
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Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 000:00
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Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 000:000
Publisher Hierarchy Department of Agriculture > Food and Nutrition Service
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6413236d1c6d48b93a0239aed9691b5384b9ad5b8655e2ac23fc29f84111ad89
Source Schema Version 1.1

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