Nutrition Services

Lunch Menus

• menus for upcoming sessions will be available soon

Cafeteria Information

• Cafeteria price list
• Free and reduced lunch application for 2009-10 - English (pdf)
• Free and reduced lunch application for 2009-10 - Spanish (pdf)

Breakfast

A nutritious breakfast is served every morning in each school cafeteria. Please check with your school cafeteria to identify the time of service. Breakfast includes a choice of an entrée, juice/fruit and milk. In the secondary schools additional items are available for purchase.

Lunch

In the secondary schools there are several choices daily for lunch. In the elementary schools there is only one entrée offered daily. Menus are available on the Santa Barbara School Districts’ website. Students on the Free and Reduced Program are entitled to receive a daily entrée, a trip to the salad bar and either milk or juice. Additional items are sold for an additional charge.

Free and Reduced Priced Meal Program

National School Lunch Program Application forms are in every school student summer packet. In addition, applications are available in your school office. The information received from the application is critical to the district and is used to determine eligibility for additional funding. All information is confidential. The completion of the Free and Reduced Priced Meal Program Application may also determine the student’s eligibility for subsidized bus tickets and/or a reduction in the cost of Advanced Placement exams. If you are eligible for Free or Reduced Priced Meals, a new form must be completed each year. Free meals are at no charge and reduced priced lunches cost $.40 per day.

Cafeteria Accounts

Students may pre-pay for meals in the cafeteria. Pre-payments are tracked by the computerized point-of-sale system when students enter their student ID number into the keypad. Pre-payments may be made in any amount in cash or by check/money order. If payment is made by check, the check should be made out to “School Cafeteria” and include the student’s name and ID number.

Cafeteria Line Procedures

If the cafeteria is to operate successfully, cooperation is needed in the following manner:

1. All students (except kindergartners and some first graders) need to enter their student ID on the keypad in order to purchase or receive food in the school cafeteria. We recommend parents of younger students teach their child their six-digit ID number before school begins each year.
2. Having cash readily available when approaching the cash registers will expedite the serving lines.
3. Students should bring the proper amount and be prepared to pay at the cash register in the school cafeteria.
4. When finished eating, students are to throw their garbage in the trashcans and/or recycle bins.
5. Eating food in the serving areas is not permitted.

Foods and Beverages Compliant with Senate Bills 12 and 965

• Compliant Foods - Elementary Schools (pdf) (in Spanish)
• Compliant Foods - Middle and High Schools (pdf) (in Spanish)