50 APS Schools Participate in Supper On Site Program

Fifty Atlanta Public School (APS) sites have been approved to participate in the Bright from the Start Supper Meal Program for the 2014-2015 school year. A collaborative effort between the APS Nutrition Department and the Expanded Day/Special Projects Department, the “Supper on Site” Program provides students with a free afterschool supper while attending their participating school’s traditional afterschool program or athletic activities.

The program started September 15, and students enrolled in traditional afterschool extra-curricular and sports programs at the 50 participating schools receive a nutritious meal after the school day.  These activities may include band, football, volleyball, robotics club, yearbook club, dance team, as well as academic programs such as After School All-Stars program and afterschool care. Earlier this month, the program was piloted with 58 students receiving meals at Long Middle School, 300 students at Mays High School and 150 students at Douglass High School.  The supper menus range from oven baked cheese pizza with celery, carrot sticks and a ripe banana to slow cooked spaghetti with meat sauce, steamed broccoli and an orange.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) at the national level. The program is administered by Bright From The Start Georgia.  The Bright From The Start Supper Meal component offers federal funding to afterschool programs that serve supper meals to children in low-income areas. The following 50 APS schools are eligible to offer the supper program based on more than 60 percent of their students qualifying for federal free-and-reduced meals program and the schools administering an after-school activity or program:

1. Adamsville Elementary
2. Beecher Hills Elementary
3. Benteen Elementary
4. Bethune Elementary
5. Bolton Academy
6. Boyd Elementary
7. Brown Middle School
8. Bunche Middle School
9. Carver High School
10. Cascade Elementary
11. Centennial Academy
12. Cleveland Avenue Elementary
13. Connally Elementary
14. Continental Colony Elementary
15. H. Stanton Elementary
16. Deerwood Academy
17. Dobbs Elementary
18. Drew Charter School
19. Dunbar Elementary
20. L. Stanton Elementary
21. Fain Elementary
22. Fickett Elementary
23. Finch Elementary
24. Forrest Hill Academy
25. Gideons Elementary
26. Harper-Archer Middle School
27. Hope-Hill Elementary
28. Hutchinson Elementary
29. A. Jones Elementary
30. Kimberly Elementary
31. Long Middle School
32. Maynard Jackson High School
33. Benjamin E. Mays High School
34. Miles Elementary
35. Parkside Elementary
36. Perkerson Elementary
37. Peyton Forest Elementary
38. Price Middle School
39. Scott Elementary
40. Slater Elementary
41. South Atlanta High School
42. M. Therrell High School
43. Toomer Elementary
44. Usher Elementary
45. Venetian Hills Elementary
46. Booker T. Washington High School
47. West Manor Elementary
48. Whitefoord Elementary
49. Woodson Elementary
50. Young Middle School