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Selection bias. If that is the case, your particular district is far, far below the Wisconsin norm:

Wisconsin Statistics

• Wisconsin had the largest percentage increase in school and low-income student participation in the School Breakfast Program in the United States for the 2005-06 school year
• 58% of schools participate in the School Breakfast Program
• 29 % of low income students eat school breakfast
• 13% of students eat school breakfast
• 306 new schools offered breakfast in the 2005-06 school year
• there was an 14.2% increase in school breakfast participation in the 2005-06 school year in low income students - the largest in the United States

UWEX Family Living Program - School Breakfast Program


13% of Wisconsin students eat breakfast at school. If over 50% of the students in your district do so, as claimed, then your district is nowhere near representative of the overall shape of the country.

Or even your state, for that matter.

Of course, one doesn't have to be at the poverty line to receive a subsidized breakfast. According to the USDA

Any child at a participating school may purchase a meal through the School Breakfast Program. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the Federal poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced-price meals. (For the period July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, 130 percent of the poverty level is $26,000 for a family of four; 185 percent is $37,000.) Children from families over 185 percent of poverty pay full price, though their meals are still subsidized to some extent.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/breakfas...PFactSheet.pdf