News and Announcements
In November 2022 , voters passed Proposition FF, which was passed into legislation as the Healthy Meals For All bill, allowing school nutrition programs to offer all meals free of charge for all students beginning school year 23-24. This means that all breakfasts and lunches will be free for all Durango School District 9-R beginning this coming school year 2024-25.
Beginning August 20, 2024, Durango School District 9-R will be operating on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) at all schools except for DHS and Shared School. CEP is a program that allows us to utilize data from SNAP, Medicaid and other benefit programs to determine school meal eligibility, without the need to collect household income information.
We will no longer be collecting applications for meal benefits, but will be collecting Combo Forms for families that might be eligible for other benefits (Trolley Passes, etc.).
Please read the official public announcements below
Food Waste Diversion Program
The Durango School District’s School To Farm Program is designed to help divert food waste from our landfills; whether it be pre-consumer- the waste produced when we prepare food, such as cutting the ends off a stalk of celery; or post-consumer-the waste produced when a student throws away uneaten food from their tray. Food waste is given to staff to feed their small livestock. Post consumer waste is given to pig farms for feed.