Congratulations to the Turnip the Beet! Award Winners
July 10, 2025
The Turnip the Beet! Awards recognize outstanding summer meal program sponsors across the nation who work hard to offer high quality meals that are appetizing, appealing, and nutritious to children during the summer months.
Summer meals are critical in the lives of millions of our nation’s youth, whose risk for food insecurity increases during the summer months when they no longer have access to the school meal programs. Summer meal programs, including the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP/SUN Meals) and the Seamless Summer Option (SSO), present the opportunity to help alleviate summertime food insecurity and positively impact children’s growth and development by offering nutritious meals. High quality summer meals provide daily energy and help make sure children are healthy and ready to learn when they return to school in the fall.
The Turnip the Beet! Awards were created to showcase sponsors who are going above and beyond to ensure that children in their care are receiving high-quality meals that are both nutritious and appetizing. These awards are aligned with USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins’ priorities to create new opportunities to connect America’s farmers to nutrition assistance programs, infuse the federal nutrition programs with new energy and vision, and strengthen strategies to encourage healthy choices, healthy outcomes, and healthy families.
For summer 2024, USDA recognized 199 winners from all seven FNS regions, with a total of 86 gold, 91 silver, and 22 bronze recipients. Congratulations to all awardees and thanks to everyone working to ensure both food and nutrition security for our nation's children during the summer months.
Gold Award Winners
- Albuquerque Public Schools (NM)
- Aldine ISD (TX)
- Alliance Public Schools (NE)
- Ambridge Area SD- High School (PA)
- Anahuac ISD (TX)
- Aurora Public Schools (CO)
- Bethlehem Area SD (PA)
- Bledsoe County Summer Feeding Program (TN)
- Boise SD (ID)
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Augusta (GA)
- Boys & Girls Club of Columbia Basin (WA)
- Brandywine Heights Area SD (PA)
- Brockton Public Schools (MA)
- Broken Bow Public Schools (NE)
- Burleson ISD (TX)
- Camden County Schools (GA)
- Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (TX)
- Castleberry ISD (TX)
- Catawba County Schools (NC)
- Centralia Elementary SD (CA)
- Centro Cuidado Diurno Arrullo Maternal, Inc. (PR)
- Chicago Park District (IL)
- Clayton County Public Schools (GA)
- Cobb County SD (GA)
- College Station ISD (TX)
- Colonial SD (DE)
- Columbus Public Schools (NE)
- Crowley ISD (TX)
- Culberson County Allamoore ISD (TX)
- Culver Community Schools Corporation (IN)
- Danville Community School Corporation (IN)
- Eagle Mountain - Saginaw ISD (TX)
- Eagle Pass ISD (TX)
- Florence ISD (TX)
- Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina (NC)
- Franklin Township Community School Corporation (IN)
- Frankston ISD (TX)
- Galena Park ISD (TX)
- Gothenburg Public Schools (NE)
- Grand Prairie ISD (TX)
- Hall County Schools (GA)
- Huron SD 2-2 (SD)
- Irving ISD (TX)
- Jamestown Public Schools (ND)
- Jefferson ISD (TX)
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (FL)
- Katy ISD (TX)
- Kern High SD (CA)
- Klein ISD (TX)
- La Porte ISD (TX)
- Lake City Public Schools (MI)
- Lake Pend Oreille SD No. 84 (ID)
- Lapeer Community Schools (MI)
- Laredo ISD (TX)
- Madison Public Schools (NE)
- Maryville R-II SD (MO)
- Medina Valley ISD (TX)
- Meigs Local SD (OH)
- Metro Parks Takoma - Summer Playgrounds and Meals (WA)
- Montrose Community Schools (MI)
- Petersburg Borough SD, Rae C Stedman Elementary (AK)
- Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (TX)
- Pittsfield SD (WI)
- Powell Valley Healthcare (WY)
- Ray Bird Ministries/Camp Ray Bird (IN)
- Rialto USD (CA)
- Right Start Summer Program at Texas A&M University - Kingsville (TX)
- Rio Grande City Grulla ISD (TX)
- Rio Hondo ISD (TX)
- Rockdale County Public Schools (GA)
- Rowland USD (CA)
- San Luis Coastal USD (CA)
- San Ysidro Elementary SD (CA)
- Santa Paula USD (CA)
- South San Antonio ISD (TX)
- Splendora ISD (TX)
- St. Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pennsylvania (PA)
- Stevens Point Area Public SD (WI)
- Storm Lake Community SD (IA)
- Sunray CISD (TX)
- The Family Adolescent & Child Community Engagement Service (OH)
- The Monroe Family YMCA (MI)
- Vermillion SD (SD)
- Wayne County Schools (GA)
- YES Prep Public Schools (TX)
- YMCA of the Blue Water Area (MI)
- Zeeland Public Schools- Quincy Elementary School and The Bridge SFSP Sites (MI)
Silver Award Winners
- Academia Cristo Ray, Inc. (PR)
- Ann Arbor Public Schools (MI)
- Bendle Public Schools (MI)
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County (NC)
- Boys & Girls Club of the Muskegon Lakeshore (MI)
- Cartersville City Schools (GA)
- Central Texas Food Bank (TX)
- Channelview ISD (TX)
- Cherokee County SD (GA)
- Coldwater Community Schools (MI)
- Copperas Cove ISD (TX)
- Crosby ISD (TX)
- Cumberland County Schools (TN)
- DC Central Kitchen (DC)
- DC Centro Nia (DC)
- Dickinson ISD (TX)
- Douglas County Schools (GA)
- Duncanville ISD (TX)
- East Central ISD (TX)
- Feeding Laramie Valley Kids Out to Lunch (WY)
- Fenton Area Public Schools (MI)
- Food Gatherers (MI)
- Fort Bend ISD (TX)
- Fullerton SD (CA)
- Fulton County Schools (GA)
- Garland ISD (TX)
- Gordon County Schools (GA)
- Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (TX)
- Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank (PA)
- Green Bay Area Public Schools (WI)
- Halifax County Schools (NC)
- Heard County Schools (GA)
- Henry County Schools (GA)
- Hesperia USD (CA)
- Hunger Intervention Project (WA)
- Jordan SD (UT)
- Kilgore ISD (TX)
- Killeen ISD (TX)
- La Crosse Area Family YMCA (WI)
- La Villa ISD (TX)
- Lamar Consolidated ISD (TX)
- Lawndale Elementary SD (CA)
- Lewisville ISD (TX)
- Lodi Family Center (OH)
- Lodi USD (CA)
- Madison Elementary SD (AZ)
- Magnolia ISD (TX)
- Manteca USD (CA)
- Marble Falls ISD (TX)
- Medical University of South
- Carolina (SC)
- Menifee Union SD (CA)
- Monroe County Community
- School Corporation (IN)
- Morgan County Schools (TN)
- Morongo USD (CA)
- Murrieta Valley USD (CA)
- Newton County Schools (GA)
- North East ISD (TX)
- North Hill Cares, Inc. (PA)
- Northwestern Ohio Community Action Commission (OH)
- Moreno Valley USD (CA)
- MSD of Decatur Township Schools (IN)
- Navasota ISD (TX)
- New Bedford Public SD (MA)
- NH Catholic Charities- NH Food Bank for Keene Middle School (NH)
- Northwest ISD (TX)
- O'Neill Public Schools (NE)
- Pasadena ISD (TX)
- Pittsburg SD (PA)
- Putnam County School System (GA)
- Ralls Rll Elementary School (MO)
- Reading Public Schools (MA)
- Romoland SD (CA)
- Roswell ISD (NM)
- Salem Public Schools (MA)
- San Antonio ISD (TX)
- San Marcos CISD (TX)
- Santa Cruz City Schools (CA)
- South Sioux City Community SD (NE)
- The Open Door (MA)
- Tift County Schools (GA)
- Treutlen County Schools (GA)
- Tri Cities Family YMCA (MI)
- Val Verde USD (CA)
- Victoria ISD (TX)
- Visalia USD (CA)
- West Ada Schools (ID)
- Westminster Public Schools (CO)
- YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina (NC)
- York Public Schools (NE)
- Yuba City USD (CA)
Bronze Award Winners
- Alice ISD (TX)
- Amarillo ISD (TX)
- Antilles Consolidated School System (PR)
- Avondale Elementary SD #44 (AZ)
- Beaufort County Schools (NC)
- Bonneville SD 93 (ID)
- Boys & Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains (TN)
- Child Hunger Outreach Partners (CHOP) Out Hunger (PA)
- City of Atlanta (GA)
- Crosswell Lexington Schools (MI)
- East St. Louis SD (IL)
- Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools (NC)
- Elkhart Community Schools (IN)
- Food Bank of Eastern Michigan (MI)
- Greater Cleveland Food Bank (OH)
- Gregory-Portland ISD (TX)
- Hastings Public Schools (NE)
- Ogallala Public Schools (NE)
- River Valley Local Schools (OH)
- Sarasota County School Board (FL)
- Troup County School System (GA)
- Valley View ISD (TX)