Free & Reduced Meals

You must complete the Free and Reduced Price School Meal Application and return it to the school.

• Households getting food stamps, TANF, or benefits from FDPIR: You only have to include your child’s name and case number, and an adult household member must sign the form.
   
• Households that do not get food stamps, TANF, or benefits from FDPIR: If you do not have a case number, you must include the names of all household members, the amount of income each person got last month and where the income came from. An adult household member must sign the form and include the last four digits of his/her social security number, or indicate that he or she has none.
   
• Households with a foster child: You only have to include the child’s name and check the box indicating that the child is a Foster Child on the Meal Application, and an adult must sign the form.

Your eligibility may be checked at any time during the school year. School officials may ask you to send written evidence that shows your child should get free or reduced price school meals.

You can talk to school officials if you do not agree with the school’s decision on your form.
You also may ask for a fair hearing by calling or writing the Superintendent.

We will use the information on your form to decide if your child should get free or reduced price meals. We may inform officials connected with other child nutrition, health and education programs of the information on your form to determine benefits for those programs or for funding and/or evaluation purposes.
 

You may apply for free and reduced price meals at any time during the school year. If you are not eligible now but have a change, like a decrease in household income, an increase in household size, become unemployed or get food stamps, TANF or benefits from FDPIR, complete a form then. We will let you know if you are approved or denied.