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Mississippi · summer 2026 (last summer)
Free summer meals for kids in Mississippi
445 summer meal sites in 138 Mississippi cities and towns, run by 109 sponsors, from USDA's Summer Meals Site Finder. 99 offer meals to go and 346 are eat on-site.
These are last summer's sites
Need food for your kids now? Call the USDA National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479), Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, or check the official USDA Summer Meals Site Finder. The list below is the summer 2026 season, which ended on September 30, 2026. These sites are not listed as open now, and the dates and meal times are from last summer, not a schedule for this year or next summer. Sites for the next summer are usually announced in the spring.
SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) in Mississippi
According to USDA, Mississippi did not take part in SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) in 2026. Free summer meal sites, below, are a separate program that every state can offer. USDA's page was last updated August 14, 2026. To take part, a state or Tribe needs an approved plan from USDA, and each decides again every year. Check the current list on USDA's site for next summer.
Cities with the most summer meal sites
Largest sponsors in Mississippi
- Jackson Public Schools 30 sites
- Vicksburg Warren School District 24 sites
- Harrison County School District 20 sites
- Feeding The Gulf Coast 19 sites
- YMCA of Memphis & The Mid-South 19 sites
- Sunflower Humphreys Counties Progress Inc. 16 sites
- Meridian Public Schools 14 sites
- MS Food Network 10 sites
- Biloxi Public School District 9 sites
- MS Band of Choctaw Indians 9 sites
All cities A–Z
- Abbeyville 1
- Aberdeen 1
- Avon 1
- Bassfield 2
- Batesville 6
- Bay Springs 4
- Bay St. Louis 3
- Belzoni 2
- Biloxi 18
- Brookhaven 1
- Byhalia 1
- Caledonia 1
- Canton 3
- Carthage 3
- Cary 1
- Choctaw 4
- Clarksdale 3
- Cleveland 3
- Clinton 1
- Coffeeville 1
- Columbia 4
- Columbus 6
- Como 2
- Conehatta 1
- Corinth 10
- Crenshaw 1
- D'Iberville 1
- Decatur 1
- Dekalb 1
- Drew 4
- Duncan 1
- Dundee 1
- Ellisville 1
- Enterprise 1
- Ethel 1
- Fayette 1
- Forest 4
- Gautier 2
- Glen 1
- Greenville 5
- Greenwood 7
- Greenwood, MS 1
- Grenada 6
- Grenwood 1
- Gulfport 19
- Hattiesburg 7
- Hazlehurst 2
- Heidelberg 2
- Heidelburg 1
- Hermanville 2
- Hollandale 1
- Holly Springs 1
- Hollysprings 1
- Horn Lake 1
- Houlka 1
- Houston 1
- Indianola 13
- Isola 2
- Itta Bena 2
- Jackson 49
- Kiln 1
- Kosciusko 1
- Laurel 10
- Leland 2
- Lexington 4
- Liberty 1
- Long Beach 3
- Louise 2
- Louisville 2
- Lousiville 1
- Lucedale 5
- Lumberton 2
- Macon 1
- Marks 2
- McComb 5
- McCool 1
- McHenry 1
- Meridian 18
- Monticello 2
- Moorhead 3
- Moss Point 4
- Mound Bayou 1
- Natchez 6
- Nettleton 1
- New Albany 1
- New Heborn 1
- Newton 1
- North Carrollton 1
- Ocean Springs 3
- Olive Branch 3
- Oxford 4
- Pascagoula 2
- Pass Christian 5
- Pattison 1
- Pearl 6
- Pearlington 1
- Petal 4
- Philadelphia 8
- Picayune 6
- Piney Woods 1
- Pope 1
- Poplarville 1
- Port Gibson 3
- Prentiss 1
- Purvis 1
- Raymond 1
- Ridgeland 1
- Robinsonville 1
- Rolling Fork 1
- Rosedale 1
- Ruleville Middle School 1
- Sallis 2
- Sardis 1
- Saucier 2
- Shaw 1
- Shelby 1
- Silver City 2
- Southaven 2
- Starkville 4
- Summit 1
- Sunflower 1
- Tunica 6
- Tupelo 9
- Tutwiler 1
- Tylertown 1
- Union 4
- Utica 1
- Vancleave 2
- Vicksburg 24
- Walls 1
- Water Valley 1
- Waveland 1
- Webb 1
- West Point 1
- Westpoint 1
- Wiggins 2
- Winona 1
- Yazoo City 2
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Questions families ask
Who can eat at a summer meal site?
USDA says its summer meal programs serve meals and snacks at no cost to children 18 and younger. Sites marked "Open to all kids" are open sites in USDA's data, meaning they welcome children from the community. Sites marked "Open with limits" are open to the community but can limit who attends, for example for safety or space. Hours change, so call the site before you go.
What does "Eat on-site" or "Meals to go" mean?
Eat on-site means meals and snacks are eaten at the site. Meals to go means they can be picked up and eaten somewhere else; some sites hand out more than one day at a time.
When are summer 2027 sites announced?
Sites for the next summer are usually announced in the spring, after sponsors apply to their state agencies. Until then this page shows last summer's list as a guide to which towns and sponsors ran sites. The official place to look is the USDA Summer Meals Site Finder.
Is this the same as SUN Bucks?
No. SUN Bucks, also called Summer EBT, is a separate USDA program that gives eligible families a benefit on a card. Summer meal sites serve meals to kids directly. Your state may offer one, both or neither.
Run a summer program in Mississippi?
BackPR is a software company and does not run these meal sites. It is free for registered nonprofits: online registration, payments, waivers, attendance and messages to families. No subscription and no BackPR fee on what families pay.
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