Participation in school breakfast has experienced a slight bump nationwide, according to the Food Research & Action Center’s School Breakfast Scorecard released in February. On average of 54 students receive free and reduced-price breakfast for every 100 receiving lunch, up from 53 students in the last survey.
Here are the states with the highest reported ratios of free and reduced-price school breakfast to lunch participation for the 2014-2015 school year.
| West Virginia | 82.3 |
| New Mexico | 70.6 |
| District of Columbia | 66.6 |
| Maryland | 64.2 |
| Texas | 62.4 |
| Kentucky | 62.2 |
| Arkansas | 61.8 |
| Tennessee | 61.6 |
| South Carolina | 61.6 |
| Vermont | 61.1 |