Few Low-Income Hawaii Students Eat School Breakfast

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They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 

But it seems that Hawaii schools haven’t quite caught onto that mantra. 

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) recently released a “School Breakfast Scorecard” that analyzed school breakfast participation among low-income children both nationally and in each state. 

Hawaii ranked fifth to last.

The federal School Breakfast Program, reauthorized in 2010 as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, provides cash assistance to states so that they can give breakfast to students from low-income families and improve child nutrition.  

Hawaii was one of five states where fewer than 40 percent of the low-income children who ate school lunch also ate school breakfast. The national average was about 50 percent. 

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