More students receiving free meals across FCPS; applications open now

The number of students receiving free and reduced-price meals across Frederick County Public Schools is on track to rise again this year. Officials hope that confusion arising from the end of pandemic-era subsidies has passed. At the start of the last school year, FCPS leaders said they were bracing for logistical challenges because families had to apply to receive free meals for the first time since COVID-19 hit.