Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of 12 Urban School Food Service Alliance members, 2018–2019.
| Median (Range) | |
| Number of students enrolled, 2018–2019 | 192,278 (55,214; 1,130,000) |
| Number of students enrolled, 2019–2020 1 | 190,014 (51,433; 1,131,868) |
| Total number of schools in district | 242 (118; 1841) |
| Elementary | 143 (73; 800) |
| Middle | 35 (6; 400) |
| High | 35 (20; 330) |
| Mean% (±SD) | |
| Schools participating in Community Eligibility Provision 2 | 72.3% (40.1) |
| Students qualifying for free/reduced price meals 2 | 79.8% (15.5) |
| Race/Ethnicity of students 3 | |
| White, non Hispanic | 16.5% (8.0) |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 36.0% (19.9) |
| Hispanic | 39.3% (20.1) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.1% (0.08) |
| Asian | 4.6% (3.4) |
| Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander | 0.0% (0.1) |
| Other race | 0.6% (0.4) |
| Two or more races | 2.8% (1.0) |
1 N = 10 districts. 2 N = 11 districts. 3 National Center for Education Statistics, 2018. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/TableViewer/acsProfile/2018 (accessed on 5 January 2021).