Texas Summer Meal Sites: Contact and Program Participation

Texas Department of Agriculture data provides contact and operational details for all approved summer meal sites. The dataset likely contains site and sponsor (CE) identifiers, addresses, statuses, meal service times, and participation schedules for the Summer Food Service Program. Information covers multiple program years, with updates occurring during the active summer period.

Use Cases

• Mapping site locations using SiteCounty, SiteStreetAddressCity, and CEStreetAddressLine1.
• Monitoring program participation and status using SiteStatus, CEStatus, and SiteTerminationStatus.
• Planning meal service schedules using LunchTime, BreakfastTime, SupperTime, and corresponding DaysServed columns.
• Identifying sponsoring organizations using CEName, TypeOfAgency, and CEID.
• Analyzing regional program coverage using TDARegion, CountyDistrictCode, and ESC columns.

Strengths

• Contains detailed operational data for multiple program years, including 2019 and 2026.
• Includes status and termination tracking fields (CEStatus, SiteTerminationStatus) for monitoring active sites.
• Dataset is updated regularly during the active program period, with updates occurring every two weeks or daily.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, file size, license, and author are consistently missing across all platform entries.
• Sources conflict on the specific program year covered, with descriptions referencing 2019 and 2026.
• Column lists differ between platform entries, suggesting potential inconsistencies in the available data fields.

Provenance

Source

Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA)

Collection Method

Collected from applications and operational reports for the Summer Food Service Program.

Time Range

Program periods for 2019 and 2026, with operations typically from mid-May through August.

Freshness

Most recent platform update was 2026-05-28.

Geography

State of Texas, United States.