UPDATED: Framingham Schools Want To Increase Cost of Lunch

Framingham Public Schools wants to increase the cost of the elementary school lunch for the 2015-16 school year.

This would be the first elementary lunch increase since 2010.

The Framingham School Committee is scheduled to vote on the proposed increase for the 2015-16 school year at its Tuesday, June 16 meeting.

According to the School Committee agenda, the proposed increase is a quarter from $2.25 to $2.50.

UPDATED: The proposed price increase is a quarter from $2.50 to $2.75.

One of the reasons for the increase is the cost of milk.

Milk has gone up 12 cents a carton over the last three years for a total increase of $98,400.

Framingham sells/gives out about 275,000 carts of milk per year.

The cost of a la cart milk will stay the same at 60 cents.

The School Committee voted last September, after school had begun for the 2014-15 school year, to raise the cost of the secondary school lunches as of October 1, 2014. The cost of a middle or high school lunch is $3.

About half of the 8,000-plus students in the public school district qualified for the free and reduced lunch program this school year.

And three schools in the district -- Barbieri, Brophy, and Wilson Elementary schools -- offer a free breakfast program, subsidized by the government as the school has had more 60 percent of its students on free or reduced lunch for three years.

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