eScholar Food and Nutrition Solution

Automatic Eligibility and Accurate Matching

Reduce Hunger by Providing Eligible Children Access to Free and Reduced-price School Meals

With the eScholar Food and Nutrition solution, states can streamline and automate the paperwork-intensive and time-consuming process of identifying students eligible for free and reduced-price meals. Our solution provides the most accurate matches for Direct Certification and Community Eligibility Provision to substantially narrow the gap of unfed children.

INCREASE DIRECT CERTIFICATION

Achieve a Direct Certification rate of 95% or higher with DirectMatch’s powerful matching engine and flexible matching options.

MATCH MORE FREQUENTLY

Directly certify students beyond the minimum of three matches a year, ensuring that children begin receiving free/reduced meals as soon as they are verified eligible. This increases the school’s Identified Student Percentage (ISP) under the Community Eligibility Provision.

COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY PROVISION

Qualify schools and districts for CEP by easily calculating ISP and view counts, statuses, and more.

AUTOMATIC REPORTS

Generate, customize, and submit required USDA reports in DirectMatch.

SUSTAINING 100% DIRECT CERTIFICATION AND INCREASING CEP

Customer Highlight: Louisiana Department of Education

Learn how the Lousiana Department of Education uses eScholar DirectMatch to fully manage the direct certification process and community eligibility provision statewide. The process is streamlined and efficient, allowing SNAP files to be loaded into DirectMatch monthly. This enables local education agencies and non-public schools to match records multiple times a year. Using DirectMatch’s matching algorithms, Louisiana has sustained a 100% direct certification rate.

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Case Study

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Webinar

Access the recording of the Louisiana Department of Education and eScholar sharing how Louisiana, once a state with one of the lowest direct certification rates, is now achieving and sustaining a 100% direct certification rate and maximizing community eligibility provision.

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NARROW THE GAP OF UNFED CHILDREN

Product Highlight: eScholar DirectMatch

eScholar DirectMatch™ streamlines and automates the paperwork-intensive and time-consuming process of identifying students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch (FRPL) and meals. It provides the most accurate matches for Direct Certification and Community Eligibility Provision to substantially narrow the gap of unfed children.

ACCURATE

eScholar DirectMatch’s deterministic and probabilistic matching algorithms prevent certification errors so no child is denied the benefits they should receive.

PRECISE

eScholar DirectMatch’s web-based application enables LEAs and SFAs to resolve potential near matches using 15 different data elements, including name, address information and gender.

VERIFIABLE

eScholar DirectMatch allows LEAs, SFAs, and the State to audit and review all match decisions, including previous school years, within one application.

MOST WIDELY-IMPLEMENTED IDENTIFIER SOLUTION

Product Highlight: eScholar Uniq-ID®

Ensuring the unique identification of a person across time, location, and source is often a challenge for education agencies. With eScholar Uniq-ID, organizations are able to maintain the integrity of records associated with individuals, while maintaining privacy. This powerful solution enables education agencies and institutions to match student records sourced from various systems and ensure that the right information is associated with the right individual.