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Number of kids getting free lunch spikes on LI

On a recent fall day, the Centereach High School cafeteria served lunch to 951 students.

For 232 of them, it was a free lunch.

They qualified for free meals from the Middle Country School District, thanks to the federal program that helps feed public school children during the school day. In the past two years, over 44 percent more students in this middle-class district in central Suffolk...

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