Child Nutrition
Child Nutrition Staff
Please complete the application to determine eligibility for your student(s) to receive free or reduced-price meals. The application can be filled out online by clicking here or a paper form may be requested from your child's school and returned to candy.longhurst@psd201.org. Please don't hesitate to fill out an application even if you think your students may not qualify! These applications are important to our schools as they also help us qualify for other funding that helps support our academic and student success programs!
To review the 2024-25 Income Guidelines, click the following: FY25 Income Guidelines.png
2023-2024 Meal Prices
The USDA has discontinued funding to extend pandemic child nutrition waivers for school meal programs. This means that for the 202-2024 school year, schools will no longer be able to serve free meals to all students. For the upcoming school year the meal prices will be as follows:
Lunch
- All students - $3.50
- Reduced - $0.40
- Adults - $4.95
Breakfast
- All students - $2.85
- Reduced - $0.30
- Adults - $3.95
If you have any questions, please reach out to our child nutrition supervisor, Candy Longhurst at candy.longhurst@psd201.org.
Biometric Lunch Scanning
Why IdentiMetrics?
Our district is implementing a biometric finger scanning identification system in an effort to provide accurate student identification as we as security for our student accounts. We are using this new identification system produced by Indentimetrics because we are held accountable for our records through audits. We want to eliminate clerical errors and provide an easy and accurate way to identify students and be sure no one else can charge items to their accounts.
What is Biometric Scanning?
Biometric Identification is an automated method of identifying a person based upon physical or behavioral characteristics. Our district has selected the identiMetrics Biometric Scanning Identification System because it is secure, accurate, cost-effective, and non-intrusive.
How Does it Work?
Using a scanner, the software scans certain unique points on the finger to create and store individual templates in the form of a number that identify each student. When the student returns, the software again scans the finger and looks for a match in the database. When a match is found, the student is identified.
What About Privacy?
**We are not fingerprinting students.**The software scans the finger for identification. It does not store a copy of the fingerprint. Instead, the software creates a template of the unique points on the finger. The template is converted to a unique number and is stored in the district's database with the same high level of security of all our records. The templates are also protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA is the same federal law that protects all student records. When your child graduates or is no longer enrolled in the school system, the templates are deleted. At no time is a fingerprint image stored.No fingerprints can be recreated or delivered to any agency - government or otherwise.
A Few Final Words
It is important to us that your child's experiences in school are educational and rewarding. This new way of identifying our students is safe, easy, accurate, efficient, and secure. If you have any questions or do not want your child to participate, please do not hesitate to contact Candy Longhurst, our Child Nutrition Supervisor, at 208-240-6887.