School Breakfast and Lunch Prices for 2023-24

Our goal is to provide excellent nutrition for your child at prices you can afford. The table below shows prices:

* Monthly costs assume 20 school days. Actual costs will vary depending on actual number of school days.
** All reduced priced meals will be free.

Adding money to a lunch account

There are several ways to add money to a student’s lunch account:

1. Charge your Visa or MasterCard online through the secure MySchoolBucks.com site. If you would like step by step instructions for using this secure site, see our online payments page. There is a convenience fee of $2.75 for each transaction.
2. Families who utilize MySchoolBucks to manage their child’s account can set alerts that will notify and/or replenish when an account balance reaches a certain point. This is managed strictly by the parent.
3. For elementary students, end cash or a check made payable to LWSD Nutrition Services to the school office with your child’s name attached and labeled “school lunch”.
4. For Middle or High School students, give cash or check made payable to LWSD Nutrition Services to a cafeteria cashier.

Accounts with negative balances

• Families will receive an automated email, text or phone call from ParentSquare and/or Mosaic (donotreply@nutrition.lwsd.org) once per week (Fridays) regarding their child’s meal account balance. Notifications will continue until account balance is paid off.  
• If the child’s account balance continues to remain negative after these attempts, Nutrition Services will contact the school designee who will connect with the families to problem solve ways to resolve the negative balance issue.
• Unresolved negative balances at the end of the year will be submitted to the Accounting office for collection.

In addition to MySchoolBucks.com, overdue balances can be paid by check made payable to LWSD with your student's name, school and "Lunch" written on the check memo line. This can be taken to your school office, cashier or mailed to the Nutrition Services office at LWSD Nutrition Services, 15130 NE 95th St., Redmond WA 98052.

Special Dietary Requests

If your child has a medical dietary need that requires food to be different or modified, you may request accommodations from the Nutrition Services Department by completing the appropriate Special Dietary Accommodations form.

Click here to download the Special Dietary Accommodations Form

The form must be completed in its entirety and signed by a state-recognized medical authority who is authorized to write medical prescriptions in the state of Washington. Completed forms must be submitted to the Nutrition Services office at 15130 N.E. 95th St., Redmond 98052. Please do not submit this form to the school nurse or the district office. Doing so will delay the processing of your request.

Wellness

Students who have nutritious food and appropriate physical activity are better prepared to learn. While student health and well-being is a shared responsibility between schools and families, the school environment must be conducive to and promote learning.

Through input from students, parents,  and staff, The Lake Washington School District has established a Nutrition, Health and Physical Fitness (Wellness) Policy that includes goals for nutrition education, physical activity and other school based activities.  Also included are nutrition guidelines for all foods sold and available on campus during the school day with the objective of promoting student health and wellness.

The district completes a triennial assessment of our Wellness Policy to determine if our policy meets all the requirements set forth by the USDA as well as measure how we are doing in practice when it comes to meeting our wellness goals. This triennial assessment summary can be found at LWSD Wellness Policy Assessment

We review the policy regularly and welcome feedback from all stakeholders. Questions, comments or input regarding the LWSD’s Wellness Policy can be emailed to: NutritionServ@lwsd.org

How can families help their children and teens eat healthy at school?

• Try new foods at home. Kids need many opportunities to taste a new food to "get used to it."
• Eat lunch at school with your child. Learn more about what’s offered and meet school nutrition staff.
• Encourage your child or teen to join in taste-testing events or surveys about school lunch, when available.
• Talk with your child about what's on the menu. Make sure they know about all the foods that are available with their school lunch.

Kids need at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

Make family time active time!

• Take a family walk after dinner.
• Go on a bike ride.
• Play together — toss a ball, shoot some hoops, jump rope, play tag.
• Weed the garden, rake leaves, shovel snow.
• Walk to school with your kids.
• Play on a playground or hike at a local park. 

Fun ways to get moving indoors...

• Play some music and have a family dance party.
• Blow up balloons and play indoor volleyball.
• Go bowling or indoor skating.
• Have a treasure hunt. See how fast everyone can find clues scattered around your home.
• Walk in the mall.

Sip Smarter

• Drink water instead of sugary drinks. Kids can fill up on sweetened drinks and not have an appetite for foods they need for growth and health.
• A cold glass of low-fat (1%) milk is also a tasty way to quench your kids’ thirst after play or school.