The cost of a school lunch for Toledo high schoolers will increase next year by 25 cents.

The Toledo Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved hiking the cost of a school lunch for the 2016-17 academic year from $2.50 to $2.75.

Toledo Public Schools currently offers free breakfast and lunch at all of its elementary schools through a federal program that reimburses high-poverty districts for providing the meals at no cost to students. The district plans to continue to serve meals for free next school year at elementary schools.

District officials are reviewing a proposal to expand that free meal program to some of its high schools, and a decision on which high schools, if any, will pursue participation in the community eligibility program is expected by mid-May, said chief business manager James Gant.

But in TPS high schools that continue to charge students for lunches, the price will go up next year based on a federal formula used to calculate the cost of meals.

Mr. Gant said it has been a couple of years since the district raised lunch prices in high schools.

The approved resolution did not address the cost of a high school breakfast, which is $1.25.

First Published April 27, 2016, 4:00 a.m.