To encourage more families to take advantage of the healthy choices available with school breakfast, Huntsville City Schools will celebrate National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) from March 3 to 7, 2025.
Busy weekday mornings make it challenging for many families to find time for a healthy breakfast. Fortunately, Huntsville City schools offer nutritious breakfasts with fruit and low-fat or fat-free milk to ensure students are fueled for learning every school day. Students can get breakfast through the Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) program, receive a second chance breakfast for late arrivals or visit the cafeteria before the start of the first class each school day.
The 2025 NSBW campaign theme, “Clue In to School Breakfast,” reminds the entire school community that school breakfast provides a healthy and energizing start to the day for students. Studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to:
Reach higher levels of achievement in reading and math
Score higher on standardized tests
Have better concentration and memory
Be more alert
Maintain a healthy weight
School nutrition professionals and students will be encouraged to show their enthusiasm for school breakfast from March 3-7 as the district celebrates NSBW with special menus, activities, and more. During NSBW, the Child Nutrition Program will introduce several new breakfast items to enhance participation and acceptability and increase the number of breakfast meals served. We will also ask staff to dress up as their favorite detective or investigator from any entertainment genre during NSBW.
“A healthy breakfast at the start of the day is a great way to ensure students are nourished and ready to learn,” said Child Nutrition Program Director Henry Ward. “National School Breakfast Week helps us educate parents and students about all our nutritious and delicious choices.”
We offer a myriad of healthy items during breakfast throughout the district that include whole fresh fruits, assorted fruit cups, low-fat milk, whole grain cereals, breakfast bars, granola, yogurt, hot entrées such as sausage biscuits, fruit juices, and more. The breakfast program has continued to be successful this school year as we have increased breakfast totals by 15% over the previous year, which equates to an additional 118,286 breakfast meals served since August 1, 2024.
About National School Breakfast Week
National School Breakfast Week was launched in 1989 to raise awareness of the availability of the School Breakfast Program, a federally assisted meal program that has operated in public and non-profit private schools and residential childcare institutions since 1975.