{"id":25767,"date":"2025-12-11T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=25767"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:43:15","slug":"household-food-insecurity-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-an-analysis-of-philly-school-experience-survey-results-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2025\/12\/11\/household-food-insecurity-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-an-analysis-of-philly-school-experience-survey-results-2023-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Food Insecurity in the School District of Philadelphia: An Analysis of Philly School Experience Survey Results, 2023-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Food insecurity directly impacts physical health and is associated with adverse developmental, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes. It can also contribute to achievement gaps between children from families with low and high incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) 2023-24 Philly School Experience Survey (PSES) provide a local data source for understanding the extent to which Philadelphia families experience food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>This brief describes the prevalence of food insecurity among SDP households that responded to the PSES and examines the differences in food insecurity rates across\u00a0 student demographic groups and schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2023-24, the Philly School Experience Survey (PSES) asked principals whether food insecurity was a challenge to student learning. Of principals who responded, 36% identified food insecurity as a \u201cgreat\u201d or \u201cmoderate\u201d challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023-24 PSES for students included a question derived from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s Youth Risk Behavior Survey that asks about student hunger. Of students who responded, 19% indicated that they had gone hungry in the previous 30 days due to a lack of food at home &#8220;sometimes,&#8221; &#8220;most of the time,&#8221; or &#8220;always.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2023-24 PSES for parents and guardians included the USDA Six-Item Short Form questions that evaluate household food insecurity. 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Results from the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) 2023-24 Philly School Experience Survey (PSES) provide a local data source for understanding the extent to which Philadelphia families experience food insecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103956,"featured_media":26098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,292,288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-nutrition","category-district-wide-survey-dws","category-surveys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26334,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions\/26334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}