The objectives of the Nutritional Improvement Project were as follows: children will attend school regularly; children will develop a receptive attitude toward school; children will increase in level of achievement. Cleveland Public Schools for the past four and one-half years have provided breakfast for all elementary pupils attending Title I, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, schools. In 1971-72 school year, approximately 37,000 students in 58 schools were served breakfast every day. All pupils in grades from kindergarten through six in the 58 Title I schools were offered breakfast at the beginning of each school day between 8:40 and 9:00 a.m. Pupils ate breakfast in their classroom with Breakfast Aides servicing four rooms by distributing the food, supervising the collection of all disposables and clearing the classrooms prior to the start of the school day. The Breakfast Aides who were hired from among applicants residing in the school neighborhood, worked an average of three hours per day. For the past five years there has been a continuing trend of lower attendance in Title I and non-Title I schools. However the Title I schools receiving breakfast did not experience as great a decline in attendance between 1967-68 and 1970-71, and in 1971-72 showed a slightly greater gain in attendance than recorded in the near-poverty area elementary schools. (Author/JM)