The Newburgh Enlarged City School District maintained its high standing, as part of the annual Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) annual school district-level report, “School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts”for the 2018-2019 school year. Newburgh Schools has come in third for its size for the last three school years (2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019). For the 2015-2016 school year, the district came in fourth. The districts that ranked higher were Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District.

The report measures the reach of the School Breakfast Program in each state by comparing the number of free and reduced-price certified children eating school breakfast to the number of such children eating school lunch. This year, of the 76 large school districts surveyed, 21 school districts met their goal of reaching 70 low-income children participating in school breakfast for every 100 participating in school lunch. All top performing districts offer breakfast free to all students in all or some schools and have robustly implemented service models that make breakfast part of the school day. A number of the top-performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District, San Antonio Independent School District, and Newburgh Enlarged City School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low-income households. Nationally, 57 low-income children participated in school breakfast for every 100 that participated in school lunch, up slightly from 56.7 in the 2016-2017 school year.