{"id":15128,"date":"2025-08-16T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/?p=15128"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:10:54","slug":"free-and-reduced-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/free-and-reduced-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Free and Reduced Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apply for Free or Reduced Lunch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.schoolcafe.com\/KENAIPENINSULABOROUGHSD\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Free or reduced meal price eligibility is based on income and household size. If you are not sure if you qualify, we encourage you to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approval for Free or Reduced meals serves 2 primary purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Provides families the financial benefit of receiving school meals at a reduced rate or even free. We do not want a family\u2019s financial situation to determine a student\u2019s access to breakfast or lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Schools receive additional funding based on the overall percentage of approved applications. These funds can be used for additional staff to provide academic support for our students, pre-school programs, additional academic resources, etc\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/534497527_748031738091521_7100965595899991244_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/534497527_748031738091521_7100965595899991244_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/534497527_748031738091521_7100965595899991244_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/534497527_748031738091521_7100965595899991244_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/534497527_748031738091521_7100965595899991244_n-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply for Free or Reduced Lunch: Free or reduced meal price eligibility is based on income and household size. If you are not sure if you qualify, we encourage you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15132,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions\/15132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-elementary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}