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TDA Food and Nutrition Program Statistics Metadata Overview

Program statistics posted here are a snapshot of TDA Food and Nutrition data. Program statistics for School Nutrition Program, Child and Adult Care Food Programs and Summer Meal Programs are derived from the site-level reimbursement datasets found on the Texas Open Data Portal.

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TDA Food and Nutrition Meals Served Dashboard
Aggregate and monthly count of meals and snacks served by participants of the School Nutrition Programs (NSLP/SBP), Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP), and Summer Meal Programs (SFSP/SSO) for the current program year.

How SquareMeals.org Program Statistics Data are Reported

Number of Contracting Entities (CE) and sites	CE and sites are counted as participants if they have submitted at least one approved claim in the program year.
*Average meals served per day*	Average meals served per day is calculated as the total number of meals served in a claim month divided by the average serving days in that month. In reporting average meals served per day for more than one claim month, the total number of meals served in a period is divided by the sum of the average, non-zero monthly serving days in that time period.
Meals served for the year	Total meals served for the year is calculated as a sum of all meals reported on approved claims for the program year.
*Reimbursements*	Meal reimbursements are reported as the sum of all approved reimbursements for the program year.

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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

The CACFP Program Year spans October 1 through September 30

ADULT CARE CENTERS	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities	228	216
Sites	347	343

Average Number of Breakfasts Served Per Day	20,049	20,412
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day	20,889	21,322

Breakfast Served for the Year	5,027,180	5,070,925
Lunches Served for the Year	5,280,215	5,315,165
Snacks Served for the Year	4,997,081	4,989,216
Suppers Served for the Year	158,141	119,616
Total Meals and Snacks Served for the Year	15,462,617	15,494,922

Federal Reimbursement for Breakfast	$10,147,144	$11,223,958
Federal Reimbursement for Lunch	$21,110,353	$23,146,801
Federal Reimbursement for Snack	$5,182,373	$5,825,706
Federal Reimbursement for Supper	$630,921	$524,095
Federal Reimbursement as Cash in Lieu	$1,467,953	$1,622,935

Total Federal Reimbursement for Adult Day Care Centers	$37,070,791	$40,720,560

CHILD CARE CENTERS¹	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities	865	837
Sites	8,879	9,254

Average Number of Breakfasts Served Per Day	126,272	134,934
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day	180,888	189,806

Breakfasts Served for the Year	27,715,681	28,843,080
Lunches Served for the Year	38,620,046	39,946,180
Snacks Served for the Year	57,370,493	53,332,376
Suppers Served for the Year	53,785,970	51,530,215
Total Meals Served for the Year	177,492,190	173,651,851

Federal Reimbursement for Breakfast	$39,679,082	$46,112,378
Federal Reimbursement for Lunch	$113,155,036	$128,494,989
Federal Reimbursement for Snack	$437,89,412	$45,243,892
Federal Reimbursement for Supper	$206,818,714	$215,775447
Federal Reimbursement as Cash in Lieu	$24,814,490	$27,345,632

Total Federal Reimbursement for Child Care Centers	$403,442,245	$435,626,706

DAY CARE HOMES	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities	28	22
Sites	3,837	3,369

Average Number of Breakfasts Served Per Day	15,896	13,851
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (November)2	20,925	19,262

Breakfast Served for the Year	3,165,727	2,935,892
Lunches Served for the Year	4,383,137	4,236,237
Snacks Served for the Year	5,621,719	5,225,904
Suppers Served for the Year	2,823,210	2,512,298
Total Meals Served for the Year	15,993,793	14,910,331

Federal Reimbursement for Breakfast	$4,627,825	$4,804,308
Federal Reimbursement for Lunch	$11,996,801	$12,866,982
Federal Reimbursement for Snack	$4,646,947	$4,960,381
Federal Reimbursement for Supper	$7,703,456	$7,660,062
Federal Reimbursement for Administration	$3,699,865	$3,691,067

Total Federal Reimbursement for Day Care Homes	$32,674,895	$33,982,801

TOTAL CACFP	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities²	1,121	1,075
Sites	13,063	12,966

Breakfast Served for the Year	35,908,588	36,849,897
Lunches Served for the Year	48,283,398	49,497,582
Snacks Served for the Year	67,989,293	63,547,496
Suppers Served for the Year	56,767,321	54,162,129
Total Meals Served for the Year	208,948,600	204,057,104

Federal Reimbursement for Breakfast	$54,454,051	$62,140,644
Federal Reimbursement for Lunch	$146,262,190	$164,508,772
Federal Reimbursement for Snack	$53,618,732	$56,029,979
Federal Reimbursement for Supper	$215,153,092	$223,959,604
Federal Reimbursement as Cash in Lieu	$26,282,443	$28,968,567
Federal Reimbursement for Administration	$3,699,865	$3,691,067

Total Federal Reimbursement for CACFP	$499,470,373	$539,298,634

CACFP Footnotes:
¹ CACFP Child Care represents Child Care Centers, At-Risk centers, Head Start centers, emergency shelters, and centers that serve meals outside of school hours.
2 Contracting Entities (CEs) may participate in more than one CACFP program. Total CACFP CE count will represent a CE more than once if the CE sponsors sites in different CACFP programs (Adult Day Care, Child Care, Day Care Homes)

School Nutrition Programs (NSLP/SBP, SMP, and FFVP)

The School Nutrition Programs Program Year spans July 1 through June 30

National School Lunch/Breakfast Program (NSLP/SBP)¹	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Education Service Centers	20	20
School Districts Contract Entities (Public and Charter)	389	1,129
Schools	2,508	8,515

Private / RCCI Contract Entities	72	76
Private / RCCI Sites	127	140

Average Number of Breakfasts Served Per Day	114,596	1,689,918
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day	158,091	3,102,247
Average Number of Snacks Served Per Day	68,341	71,456

Breakfasts Served For the Year	18,987,999	292,313,399
Lunches Served for the Year	25,067,233	534,338,471
Snacks Served for the Year	8,940,103	9,206,396
Total Number of Meals Served for the Year	52,995,335	835,858,266

Federal Reimbursement for Breakfast	$41,164,097	$693,769,834
Federal Reimbursement for Lunch	$85,079,193	$1,963,821,177
Federal Reimbursement for Snack	$8,939,138	$9,798,730
State Reimbursement (Public Schools)	$13,887,628	$13,760,963

Total Federal and State Reimbursement for School Nutrition Programs	$149,070,057	$2,681,150,704

Total School Meals Served²
Total School Breakfasts Served September-May	249,521,536	N/A
Total School Lunches Served September-May	462,016,225	N/A
Total School Snacks Served September-May	8,298,109	N/A

Total School Meals Served September-May	719,835,870	N/A

SNP footnotes:
¹ In March 2020, USDA began allowing flexibility in nutrition assistance program policies in order to support continued meal access as the coronavirus pandemic (covid-19) impacted meal service operation. Due to the covid pandemic, many Texas schools elected to serve meals under a different child nutrition program, such as Seamless Summer Option (SSO) or Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). School Nutrition Program statistics for program year 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 report meals claimed under the school nutrition program only. These data do not include meals served during the school year under SSO or SFSP. Total estimated school meals served during these program years regardless of program can be found in the total school meals served table. For more information on the waivers implemented for this purpose, please visit our coronavirus updates for contracting entities page on Squaremeals.org.

² Total school meals served reports meals served during the school year through all child nutrition programs available to School Nutrition Program (SNP) operators during the pandemic. For the purposes of program statistics reporting, the school year is defined as September through May and Summer Meal Service is defined as June through August. Child nutrition programs available to SNP operators during the pandemic include the traditional National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and Afterschool Care Program and pandemic-specific operation of Summer Food Service Program (2020-2021) and Seamless Summer Option (2020-2021, 2021-2022).

Special Milk Program (SMP)	Program Year 2020-2021	Program Year 2021-2022
Contracting Entities	1	0
Sites	1	0

Average 1/2 pints served per day	42	0
1/2 pints served for the year	6,880	0

Total Federal Reimbursements	$1,514	$0

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP)	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities	59	68
Sites	341	337

Total Enrolled at Participating Sites	170,788	169,986
Dollar per Student	$60	$67

Total Federal Reimbursements	$10,228,060	$11,374,186

Summer Meal Programs (SFSP and SSO)

Summer Meal Programs typically operate May through August¹

SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM (SFSP)²	Program Year 2021-2022	Program Year 2022-2023
Contracting Entities	156	139
Sites	2,422	2,163

Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (June)	137,052	118,910
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (July)	88,756	55,063
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (August)	43,650	35,881

Breakfast Meals Served June-August	2,102,070	1,498,097
AM Snack Meals Served June-August	21,822	22,989
Lunch Meals Served June-August	354,0158	2,902,310
PM Snack Meals Served June-August	559,609	564,569
Supper Meals Served June-August	130,830	111,870

Total Meals Served June-August	6,354,489	5,036,787
Federal Reimbursement June-August	$22,686,706	$19,706,642

Total Meals Served October-September³	6,395,823	5,078,138
Federal Reimbursement October-September³	$22,837,254	19,871,562

SEAMLESS SUMMER OPTION (SSO)	Program Year 2022	Program Year 2023
Contracting Entities	595	529
Sites	4,101	2,780

Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (June)	587,746	262,435
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (July)	77,490	64,846
Average Number of Lunches Served Per Day (August)	21,936	20,064

Breakfast Meals Served June-August	4,609,452	3,081,428
AM Snack Meals Served June-August	6,898	5,723
Lunch Meals Served June-August	7,137,406	4,848,109
PM Snack Meals Served June-August	13,306	24,790
Supper Meals Served June-August	19,023	10,296

Meals Served June-August	11,786,085	7,970,346
Federal Reimbursement June-August	$40,499,849	$29,699,366

Total Meals Served October-September³	683,620,557	8,146,054
Federal Reimbursement October-September³	$2,361,252,133	$30,345,776

TOTAL SUMMER MEAL PROGRAMS	Program Year 2022	Program Year 2023
Contracting Entities	751	668
Sites	6,523	4,943

Total Meals Served June-August	18,140,574	13,007,133
Federal Reimbursement June-August	$63,186,555	$49,406,009

Total Meals Served October-September³	690,016,380	13,224,192
Federal Reimbursement October-September³	$2,384,089,387	$50,217,338

Summer Meal Program Footnotes:
¹ In March 2020, USDA began allowing flexibility in nutrition assistance program policies in order to support continued meal access should the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) impact meal service operation. Due to these flexibilities, summer meal programs were available to School Nutrition Program operators through the school year. Summer meals served during the school year (September through May) are reported in the School Nutrition Program statistics section. Summer meals served during June through August are reported in the summer meal programs statistics section. For more information on the waivers implemented for this purpose, please visit our website at SquareMeals.org.
²SFSP meals served include second meals that may have been ineligible for reimbursement.
³ Program year for pandemic-specific operation of summer meal programs is defined as October through September.

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