Free Meals for Children This Summer 
Started June 1st
Food Available Monday-Friday
11:00am-12:30pm

Exit your car at the Mary Statue and approach the tables to get your food. 

Food available to ALL children ages 0-18.  

The free lunch program is a  federally funded program that  President Biden approved through the Spring of 2022.  Food insecurities exist across the nation, according to Feed America, one of every six children in Kentucky are facing food insecurities.  26% of the Lexington population, according to the US Census Bureau are under the age of 18, that is approximately 81,000 children who are going hungry - in Lexington.  The Diocese of Lexington Food Service Program wrote a grant so that we could help to address this issue, we serve approximately 14,000 meals a month out of our kitchen, approximately 300 of our students daily take advantage of the free lunch, we are feeding many more than just our students as our program must be, by dictates of the federal grant, open to all children under the age of 18.  With the Clays Mill Road construction going on, Clays Mill School will not be able to offer the free lunch program this summer, Mary Queen is the only school in the area that has applied and will be able to offer this program.  Yes, our students do have the opportunity to take advantage of the free lunch just as everyone else in the Lexington area.  Food insecurities do not discriminate by which school you attend.