Could be an unexpected larger number of school age children taking advantage of free and reduced lunch programs.
The new wave is not just free lunch for everyone, but free breakfast for everyone.
All the woke, wealthy towns think everyone should get free meals so the token poor kids won’t be embarrassed about getting their meals free.
Yeah, a stupid thing to worry about, but they could easily change their processes so other kids wouldn’t know who they were—if they wanted to.