PIERRE — Parents of students in the Pierre School District will have to deal with packing a lunch or paying for a meal in the next school year…
Business Manager Darla Mayer says a federal program that has provided free lunches is ending…
School lunch prices did increase slightly just before the federal free lunches became available…
Breakfast prices will increase next school year 25-cents for Elementary, Middle and High School and 50-cents for adults. Lunch prices go up 30-cents next year for Elementary, Middle School; 35-cents at Riggs and 49-cents for adults. Milk prices will increase 10-cents to a half dollar. A 20-Day punch card will go from eight to ten-dollars. The quarter pass from 20 to 21-dollars and a school year pass goes up 10-dollars to 70-dollars.