Food Service

2022-23 School Year: Paid Meals
2021-22 School Year: More than Just Free Meals

2022-23 School Year: Paid Meals

Since March of 2020, the federal government has provided free meals to all students. Congress recently declined to continue funding this program beyond this school year. This means all students will return to full price meals or will need to apply for free or reduced meals for the next school year.

There are important steps you can take after July 1, 2022 to be sure your student receives the meals they need next year.

Your student may qualify for free or reduced meals, but you must take action to make it happen. Please follow the steps below:

Watch for a direct certification letter from the district. This is your automatic approval of meal benefits. If you qualify through direct certification, you will not be required to complete a separate application.
If you don’t receive a direct certification letter by the end of July, please complete the 2022-2023 online application, which will be available through your Parent Portal app. Additionally, we will notify you by email at this time.

If you do not qualify for free or reduced meals, please ensure you maintain a positive balance on your meal account. Information on meal prices can be found at the bottom of our Food Service webpage.

Tips for maintaining your meal account balance

Create a family account – To combine all children to one meal account, contact jenny.mckenna@stoughton.k12.wi.us. This allows all children to draw on one meal account.
Set up auto-replenish – See our Food Service webpage for details on how you can set up automatic payments that will prevent your account from running out of funds.

To learn more about past-due meal accounts (negative lunch account balance), please review the related School Board policy, po8500.

For assistance, please contact Jenny McKenna at jenny.mckenna@stoughton.k12.wi.us.

2021-22 School Year: More than Just Free Meals

2021-22 More Than Just Free Meals

Per the USDA, meals will again be free for students for the 2021-22 school year. However, it is still important to fill out an application for free and reduced meals, if you have not already done so or received an automatic approval letter. Why? Because this approval may make you eligible for future pandemic EBT benefits. It also ensures continued funding for the district.

Meals will be available to school-aged children, attending in person on school days only.

Summer Meals

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Food Service Information

Food Service Policies

Policy 8500.00 Food Services
Policy 8531.00 Free and Reduced -Price Meals

Menus

Note: Due to commodity challenges, menus are subject to change.

JUNE
K-5 Breakfast
6-12 Breakfast
K-5 Lunch
6-8 Lunch
9-12 Lunch

Meal Details

Elementary

Students may choose to participate in breakfast and/or lunch daily.
No sign up needed.
Morning milk in the classroom is NOT included. Milk is $0.40 per day for students who DO NOT qualify for free/reduced meals.
Please check your Infinite Campus Portal account to ensure funds are available or to add funds to your account
Breakfast and lunch will be prepackaged and may include hot and/or cold items.

MIDDLE AND High School

Students may choose to participate in breakfast and/or lunch daily.
No sign up needed.
- RB Breakfast will be available inside the main door from 7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
- HS Breakfast will be available inside the main front and rear entrances from 8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. daily.
Lunch will include at least three different food groups, one of which must be a serving of fruit.
Ala carte items will be available for purchase through student accounts only. No cash will be accepted.
All students will be required to go through the cashier line and scan their student IDs. This is to ensure proper tracking and/or charging.

Free and Reduced Applications

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Brown Bag Lunches

Brown bag lunches are available on early release days for students in grades K-8.

Purchases, Payments and Prices

Meal Prices

	Breakfast	Breakfast Reduced*	Lunch	Lunch Reduced*	Milk	Free*
Elementary	$1.60	$0.30	$3.00	$0.40	$.40	$0.00
Middle School	$1.85	$0.30	$3.15	$0.40	$.40	$0.00
High School	$1.85	$0.30	$3.25	$0.40	$.40	$0.00
Adult	$2.35	$0.30	$4.65	$0.40	$.40	$0.00

*See "Free & Reduced Meals" on this page for more information.

Estimate of meals costs by week / month / year

A La Carte Purchases

Elementary School Students - A la carte purchases are not available for our elementary students.

Middle School Students - It is our practice to require permission to purchase ala carte items on account. Students without permission will be required to pay cash for ala carte purchases. This will stay on file for 7th and 8th grade unless you request a change. Any permission given last year for current 7th and 8th grade students in on file. Please click here to allow ala carte purchase on account for your 6th grade student or 7th/8th grade student who currently do not have permission. Please allow 24 hours for processing.

High School Students - It is our practice to allow purchasing of ala carte items on account. Students will be allowed to purchase ala carte items on account unless you have requested we block these purchases. This will stay on file for the remainder of high school unless you request a change. Please click here to block ala carte purchases on account for your 9th grade student or 10th, 11th, 12th grade students who currently have permission.

How to make payments in Campus Portal

Click here for a quick overview of the new portal layout when making payments.

Free online echeck payments via Infinite Campus Parent Portal - click here
MS/HS payments of cash or check should be placed in a clearly marked envelope and given directly to a Taher cashier
Elementary payments of cash or check should be placed in a clearly marked envelope and placed in the meal payments box located outside the office.

Family Accounts & Automatic Replenishment in Campus Portal

Family Accounts and Automatic Replenishment**By using both of the options below you should never have to worry about your student not having funds available.

Family Accounts: You may choose to combine all students into one account. This means, one reminder, one payment for all of your children. Please contact Jenny McKenna at Jenny.McKenna@stoughton.k12.wi.us if you would like to create a family account.

Automatic Replenishment : You may set up an automatic replenishment at a minimum balance or on specific days of the month. Option 2 is great for our dual household students! Please go to your Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Click here for directions.

Balance Reminders

Are set at a district level and automatically sent via Infinite Campus according to the following (note that low balance reminders may not be set for individual amounts).
Automatically email, twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, low balance reminders for all students and staff with account balances less than $10.00 but greater than $0.00.

Automatically email, twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, past due balance reminders for all students and staff with balances less than $0.00.

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Food Service

2022-23 School Year: Paid Meals

2022-23 School Year: Paid Meals

2021-22 School Year: More than Just Free Meals

2021-22 More Than Just Free Meals

Summer Meals

Food Service Information

Food Service Policies

Meal Details

Elementary

MIDDLE AND High School

Free and Reduced Applications

Brown Bag Lunches

Purchases, Payments and Prices

Meal Prices

Meal Prices

A La Carte Purchases

A La Carte Purchases

How to make payments in Campus Portal

Family Accounts & Automatic Replenishment in Campus Portal

Balance Reminders

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