National School Lunch Week begins

Name: National School Lunch Week begins
Start: 2026-10-12
End: 2026-10-12

Monday, October 12, 2026

A hungry kid cannot learn. The math is not complicated.

National School Lunch Week, the second week of October, has been observed since 1962, when President John F. Kennedy proclaimed it by executive order. It recognizes the National School Lunch Program, a federally funded program that provides low-cost or free lunches to approximately 30 million childr