Lead Hill Superintendent Wanda Van Dyke said for some kids in her school district, the meals the school provides are the only ones they get that day.

"Our approximate poverty level is 83 percent, and so food scarcity is an issue for our children," she said.

She said food scarcity is not just a problem in her district. It's a problem statewide.

Lead Hill School District provides breakfast and lunch to all of its students, and snacks for grades K-6th every school day.

The district has a backpack program.

"We're very blessed to have a local church that provides food that we place in a backpack, and we have identified students that come in on Friday or the last school day of the week, and they take that backpack full of food and they bring it back on Monday," Van Dyke said.

And they also have a program where kids can come into school during the summer and get lunch, called the Seamless Summer program.

But during the school year, if districts cook too much food, sometimes it's thrown away.

A new law passed in the state will allow school districts to have another option when it comes to the surplus.

"We are tremendously excited at the opportunity to be able to take that excess lunch, that does happen regardless of how well you plan, and to be able to put it to good use so it actually goes toward our students," the superintendent said.

The school district will be allowed to give those meals to a nonprofit organization, who will then give the students the food to take home.

"And so we've began looking at the cost that's involved in terms of having a sealer, in terms of having to package and take care that that food is sealed in an appropriate way," Van Dyke said.

A school in Indiana has received national attention for doing just that.

If all goes smoothly, Van Dyke said school districts should be able to start implementing the policy in the upcoming school year.