During a 15-minute window used for homeroom, announcements and prep time, students eat the food at desks or a table. Teachers typically instruct students to pas out food or form a line. 
School bell rings and kids return from playground to classroom. Bags are dropped off via carts to each room. Foods served are an entrée (such as cereal, mini-waffles, French toast sticks or an oatmeal bar), a fruit or juice and milk. Cafeteria employees load hot/cold bags for each classroom before the first bell rings. It’s breakfast, in the classroom – which means that students get a healthy breakfast in a safe environment with a caring adult every day of the school year. Here’s how Breakfast in the Classroom works: “Once a school has the infrastructure in place, federal funds help provide ongoing support to these schools where hunger and poverty is prevalent.” “One of the great things about this program is that the one-time funds are used for capital expenses and technical assistance to launch Breakfast in the Classroom,” he said. “We would need $444,000 to fund the remaining 111 schools, so a one-time investment of $4,000 is needed to fund each school. “Already, Valley of the Sun United Way has provided 19 schools and more than 12,000 students the tools needed for Breakfast in the Classroom,” said Jayson Matthews, Director of Ending Hunger at Valley of the Sun United Way. This is part of their effort to End Hunger in the Classroom by working with schools to provide food to children and reduce chronic household hunger. That’s why Valley of the Sun United Way is on a mission to provide alternative breakfast options like Breakfast in the Classroom to 130 schools and over 74,100 children in need through Maricopa County. Approximately 82,000 households in Maricopa County struggle to put food on the table for themselves or their families, and 45% of them are households with children. The current need is so great that it threatens to overwhelm the Valley’s network of resources and support services. 
Here in Maricopa County, approximately 82,000 households struggle to put food on the table for themselves or their families, and 45% of them are households with children.
In fact, students who eat breakfast each day, on average, score more than 17 percent higher on math tests and are 20 percent more likely to graduate than students who don’t eat breakfast at all. K ids who eat breakfast on a regular basis perform better academically, have increased attendance and make fewer trips to the school nurse’s office, research says. Any working adult can attest to the same fact – we all do better with food in our stomachs. That conclusion is based on research - but it’s also just common sense. Starting school days on empty stomachs can make students more easily distracted and fare worse in class than counterparts who eat breakfast. And that means a lot of kids go to school hungry. One in five Arizonans live below the federal poverty line and record numbers of Valley residents continue to turn to local food banks for assistance.
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