School Year 2025-2026
CEP is a universal meal plan under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), permitting eligible schools to provide the initial meal service to those students at no charge, regardless of economic status.
- All DCPS students receive free breakfast, as well as supper and snack at participating schools.
- Students attending the CEP schools listed below will also receive their FIRST lunch at no cost.
- Additional lunch meals or à la carte items will incur a charge, and meal accounts must have a positive balance to make purchases.
- DCPS FNS encourages parents/guardians of students who do not attend a CEP school to complete the Free and Reduced Meal (FARM) application. Households with students attending a CEP school are not required to submit a FARM application, but may do so if they choose.
The schools listed below have been certified for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP):
- Amidon-Bowen Elementary School
- Anacostia High School
- Ballou High School
- Ballou STAY High School
- Bancroft Elementary School
- Bard High School Early College DC
- Barnard Elementary School
- Beers Elementary School
- Benjamin Banneker High School
- Boone Elementary School
- Brightwood Elementary School
- Brookland Middle School
- Browne Education Campus
- Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View
- Bunker Hill Elementary School
- Burroughs Elementary School
- Burrville Elementary School
- C.W. Harris Elementary School
- Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan
- Cardozo Education Campus
- Chisholm Elementary School (formerly Tyler Elementary School)
- Cleveland Elementary School
- Columbia Heights Education Campus
- Coolidge High School
- Dorothy I. Height Elementary School
- Drew Elementary School
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts
- Dunbar High School
- Eastern High School
- Eliot-Hine Middle School
- Excel Academy Public School
- Garfield Elementary School
- Garnet-Patterson STAY (formerly Roosevelt STAY High School)
- Garrison Elementary School
- H.D. Cooke Elementary School
- H.D. Woodson High School
- Hart Middle School
- Hendley Elementary School
- Houston Elementary School
- Ida B. Wells Middle School
- J.O. Wilson Elementary School
- Jefferson Middle School Academy
- John Francis EC (formerly School Without Walls @ Frances Stevens)
- John Lewis Elementary School
- Johnson Middle School
- Kelly Miller Middle School
- Ketcham Elementary School
- Kimball Elementary School
- Kramer Middle School
- Langdon Elementary School
- Langley Elementary School
- LaSalle-Backus Elementary School
- Leckie Education Campus
- Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
- Luke C. Moore High School
- MacArthur High School (*new SY25-26)
- MacFarland Middle School
- M.L. King Elementary School
- Malcolm X Elementary School at Green
- Marie Reed Elementary School
- McKinley Middle School
- McKinley Technology High School
- Military Road Early Learning Center
- Miner Elementary School
- Moten Elementary School
- Nalle Elementary School
- Noyes Elementary School
- Patterson Elementary School
- Payne Elementary School
- Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering High School
- Plummer Elementary School
- Powell Elementary School
- Randle Highlands Elementary School
- Raymond Elementary School
- River Terrace Education Campus
- Ron Brown College Preparatory High School
- Roosevelt High School
- Savoy Elementary School
- Seaton Elementary School
- Simon Elementary School
- Smothers Elementary School
- Sousa Middle School
- Stanton Elementary School
- Stevens Early Learning Center
- Stuart-Hobson Middle School
- Takoma Elementary School
- Thomas Elementary School
- Thomson Elementary School
- Truesdell Elementary School
- Tubman Elementary School
- Turner Elementary School
- Van Ness Elementary School
- Walker-Jones Education Campus
- Watkins Elementary School
- Wheatley Education Campus
- Whitlock Elementary School (formerly Aiton Elementary School)
- Whittier Elementary School