No-cost Meals for ALL HPS student in 2023-2024

You may have heard about the recent legislation that was passed in Michigan to include "free" meals for all students. The Nutrition Services department is working to meet all of the requirements of the new Michigan School Meals Program and we wanted to let you know how that impacts Holland Public students.

For the 2023/24 SY, HPS will provide students with 1 breakfast & 1 lunch each school day at no-cost to them ("free"). Milk only without the rest of the meal will be $.75 each and at HS there will still be ala carte items for sale individually. Adult meals will be $3.00 for breakfast and $5.00 for lunch. There will be no charging allowed for anyone!

One of the requirements is that each family completes an application. This is a new application called the Education Benefits Form. It's shorter and much easier than the standard F/R form of the past. Please encourage all families to complete this application.  

Why do families need to apply if everyone has the opportunity to receive meals at no-cost? Well, simply put, without the applications our district risks losing very important state funding! So, please. we encourage all families to complete the application as soon as possible! 

Also included is the Permission to Share information form. We utilize the utmost of privacy in regards to student benefit information so if the family would like to give us permission to share with other programs, this form must be on file. Use as needed. 

The breakfast and lunch operation will look the same, the only difference is that any student who would like breakfast and/or lunch will be able to eat at no-cost.