More than 50% of the students at Ninth District Elementary receive free and reduced lunch. The Kenton County Cooperative Extension Services Nutrition Education Program Assistant along with the Community Learning Coordinator at Ninth District Elementary used the Professor Popcorn Nutrition curriculum to teach students the importance of healthy food choices.  

With more than 100 students in the afterschool program, the Nutrition Education Program Assistant worked with 32 students in grades first through fifth grade. The Nutrition Assistant taught the students the importance of healthy foods and physical activity, along with the importance of hand washing. With the visuals and activities that the Professor Popcorn curriculum provides, the students were very engaged in what they were learning. By the end of the six weeks with the students, more than half were able to correctly name all of the food groups and what foods belong to those food groups.