From the nc.dpi.gov website, Yancey County Schools most certainly does qualify for students to be provided free meals. For the 2022-2024 School year in the LEAs-Wide District Report for The Community Eligibility Provision(CEP) provides eligibility participation information for all LEAs (school districts and charter schools) for the state. Yancey’s ISP (Identified Student Percentage) is 50% and eligible to participate. There are 2010 students at the seven YCS schools and all are eligible. Actually Mitchell qualifies and are feeding their students for the coming school year and their ISP is lower at 45.53%. This is current NC state department of public instruction data for the 2023/2024 school year. Of 209 public and charter schools in the state only 23 are not eligible. The data can be found here https://www.dpi.nc.gov/
The documentation of proof is already supplied by various county agencies. The data comes from numbers of families receiving food stamps, families who are homeless, children receiving Medicade, children in foster care and probably other sources. The data to back the fact Yancey is community eligible is already there and no one should have to worry about proving it if called upon.
