Texas School Meal Reimbursement Claims For 2025-2026 Program Year

Meal reimbursement claims data for sites participating in Texas school nutrition programs during the 2025-2026 program year. The Texas Department of Agriculture administers these USDA programs, including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Data is updated daily during the active program year and is subject to change until 90 days after the program year closes.

Use Cases

• Analyze reimbursement patterns by meal type using columns like BreakfastReimbursement, LunchReimbursement, and SnackReimbursement.
• Assess meal participation rates and equity by comparing counts of free, reduced-price, and paid meals served across columns like BreakfastServedPaid, LunchServedRedc, and SnacksServedFree.
• Monitor program administration efficiency by calculating average daily participation (ADP) metrics from columns like LunchADP and SnackADP.
• Evaluate geographic distribution of program funding by aggregating TotalReimbursement by TDARegion, CECounty, or SiteCounty.
• Profile participating organizations by analyzing the distribution of sites across TypeOfOrg and TypeOfAgency categories.

Strengths

• Daily updates during the active program year provide near-real-time operational data.
• Covers multiple USDA nutrition programs (e.g., National School Lunch, School Breakfast) across Texas.
• Includes granular site-level data with identifiers like SiteID, SiteName, and CEName for detailed analysis.

Limitations

• Exact row count and dataset size are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Data is specific to Texas, limiting generalizability to other states or national analyses.
• Data for the 2025-2026 program year is subject to change until 90 days after the program closes.

Provenance

Source

Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), Food and Nutrition division.

Collection Method

Administrative claims data submitted by sites participating in USDA school nutrition programs for reimbursement.

Time Range

Program Year 2025-2026.

Freshness

Updated daily during the active program year; last platform update was April 3, 2026.

Geography

State of Texas, United States.