Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents and their Californian school food authorities (n = 431) 1.
| Title | n | % |
| School Nutrition Director/Foodservice Director | 274 | 63.9 |
| School Nutrition Supervisor/Manager/Coordinator | 97 | 22.6 |
| Other | 58 | 13.5 |
| Years in the role at SFA | n | % |
| Less than 1 year | 58 | 13.5 |
| 1–4 years | 147 | 34.2 |
| 5–9 years | 111 | 25.8 |
| 10 or more years | 114 | 26.6 |
| Percentage of schools participating in CEP or Provision 2/3 | n | % |
| None | 118 | 27.6 |
| 1–24% of schools | 22 | 5.1 |
| 25–74% of schools | 27 | 6.3 |
| 75–99% of schools | 17 | 4.0 |
| All schools | 244 | 57.0 |
| The first year of participation in CEP or Provision 2 or 3, among those participating in one of those | n | % |
| School year 2019–2020 or earlier | 192 | 64.2 |
| In the school year 2022–2023 | 107 | 35.8 |
| Enrollment size | n | % |
| Small (2499 or fewer students) | 236 | 54.9 |
| Medium (2500–9999 students) | 120 | 27.9 |
| Large (10,000 or more students) | 74 | 17.2 |
| Free and reduced-price meal (FRPM) eligibility | n | % |
| Low FRPM eligibility (less than 40% of students) | 132 | 31.1 |
| High FRPM eligibility (40% or more of students) | 292 | 68.9 |
| Urbanicity 2 | n | % |
| Urban | 275 | 64.0 |
| Not urban | 155 | 36.1 |
1 Sample size varies for some questions due to missing survey responses. 2 Urbanicity was determined using the reported zip code and based on the 2010 USDA rural–urban commuting area (RUCA) codes, and it was dichotomized into urban (RUCA primary code = 1) and non-urban (RUCA primary codes = 2–10) [26]. SFA: school food authority; CEP: Community Eligibility Provision.