Meal Prices and Information

Students may eat both breakfast and lunch every school day. Students approved for free or reduced priced meals may receive both breakfast and lunch each day.

New information regarding mySchoolbucks Prepayment for meals!

For all parents who utilize mySchoolbucks to make online payments into their child's cafeteria account, we are changing to a different online system.  Parents may continue to make payments through December 16.  Myschoolbucks will be disabled after that date. This will not affect the balance in your child's account.  The new system, ParentOnline, will be available starting December 23, 2011.  Parents will need to create an account with Parent Online, which works exactly the same as mySchoolbucks did.   A $1.75 convenience fee will be charged when parents make payments into the child's account. 

All mySchoolbucks accounts will be cancelled automatically after December 16th.  We will post information on the new system when it is available.  Please call Nutrition Services at 760-331-5000 if you have any questions. 

Purchasing Meals

Students who purchase meals or snacks enter a PIN # into a keypad when retrieving their meal. The PIN # remains the same for as long as the child is in the school district. The number is given only to the individual student and must not be shared with others. Students at all grade levels should know their PIN # in order to purchase a meal.

Charged Meals

Nutrition Services is required to be a self-sustaining department. All revenues received go towards our staff payroll, benefits, food and supply purchases, equipment purchase and repair, etc. It is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that they provide their child with money to buy lunch. We cannot be responsible for covering meals for students who routinely do not have money to buy lunch; this would be a gift of public funds and is against the state Ed. code.

We do allow students to charge up to two lunches and two breakfasts, or a total of $8.50 at the elementary schools and $9. at middle and high schools. They enter their PIN # as usual, and the computer charges the meal to the student’s account. Parents are responsible for reimbursing the cafeteria for all charged meals. We do not allow students to charge snack items.

Once the student reaches their charge limit, he or she will be given an alternate lunch, with milk so that they do not go away hungry. The parent will be notified that the child is being sent to school without provisions for eating to determine how to rectify the problem.