On an average school day, the public schools serve 4,542 lunches to Warren County children. That’s in addition to the 2,356 breakfast plates offered to students.The Warren County Schools nutrition program has no rival when it comes to assuring regular meals for children, many of whom face chronic food insecurity when classes are in recess.Answering the challenges of the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is a permanent priority with the schools’ food service department, and was one of many achievements celebrated Thursday evening at the newly-built Dibrell Elementary School cafeteria.“Studies have shown that kids who eat breakfast have better concentration, score higher on exams, have better attendance rates and fewer behavioral problems,” said Jean Wix, director of Warren County’s school nutrition program. “School lunches in some cases are the only meal they will have that day,” she added.School cafeterias are also sharply focused on increasing student participation in the breakfast-lunch offerings and combatting food-borne pathogens.