Cafeteria and School Lunch
The school cafeteria has both breakfast and lunch available daily. Lunch includes a choice of two main dishes, fruits and/or vegetable, and milk. Milk may be purchased separately.
Each child has his or her own cafeteria account. A check or money may be sent in with the child and will be deposited to their individual account. If paying by check, please write the child’s name on the check. If paying by cash, please place the cash in an envelope with the child’s name and teacher on the envelope. Payments should be brought into the cafeteria in the morning as lunchtime is a very busy time. MySchoolBucks is an optional service for parents to make prepayments to your child's cafeteria account for lunch via the Internet with a credit/debit card.
Each day that the child buys something from the cafeteria, the amount of the purchase will be subtracted from the child’s account. For example, if a child decides to buy lunch, he will go through the lunch line and his own personal account identification number will be scanned into a machine. The amount of $2.55 will automatically be subtracted from his account. It is the parent’s responsibility that there is money in a child’s account. Letters go home every Wednesday reminding parents if an account no longer has funds and if money is owed to the cafeteria. An alternative meal will be provided to students who do not have funds in their account and are not eligible for free breakfasts and lunches.
Children who arrive to school late and are planning on a cafeteria lunch must order that lunch from the cafeteria after signing in at the office.
If a child has a special dietary need (ex. Cannot drink milk, eat cheese, nuts, etc.) please notify the cafeteria manager in writing so that the proper substitution can always be in place.
Children may qualify for free or reduced lunch. Please request a free or reduced lunch application or click here to print an application. Once an application is approved, a letter will be sent to the parents from the Food Services division of Montgomery County Public Schools. At this point, the students will be eligible for free or reduced lunch. Students who qualified for free or reduced lunch in the previous school year will be qualified until October 1, 2017 (the MCPS Food Service deadline for approval of free or reduced meals for the 2017 - 2018 school year). An application needs to be submitted each year. If an application has not been approved by October 1, 2017, the student will be charged full price for lunch.
Breakfast……………… Free
Lunch………….………. $2.55 Reduced Lunch………….. $0.40
Milk……………………. $0.60
NEW APPLICATION PROCESS
Free and Reduced-price Meals
The application process for the Free and Reduced-price Meals System (FARMS) will change from an individual student application to a household application. Parents and guardians will need to submit just one application that lists all the children in their household who attend Montgomery County Public Schools.
The applications will not be pre-printed with student information as they were in the past, so it will be necessary for parents/guardians to list the names, ID numbers, birthdates, and schools of the children for whom they are applying. (Parents/guardians are reminded that student identification numbers can be found on report cards.) The application has been re-designed for the new process and will contain detailed, easy-to-follow directions. Parents/guardians should be aware that, because all students from a household will apply on one application, only the youngest child in the household will receive an application the first week of school.
