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About Sodexo

Lake Washington School District has partnered with Sodexo to provide students with nutritious meal options for more than 35 years. Sodexo is a leading integrated food and facilities management services company in the U.S., Canada and Mexico with 120,000 employees. Sodexo serves more than 10 million customers daily in corporations, health care, long term care, and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government and remote sites. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is a subsidiary of Sodexo Group. Sodexo, Inc. funds the Sodexo Foundation, an independent charitable organization. Since its founding in 1999, the Sodexo Foundation has made more than $11 million in grants to fight hunger in America.

School Breakfast and Lunch Prices

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

	Breakfast		Lunch
	Day	Month*	Day	Month*
Elementary	$1.75	$35.00	$3.25	$65.00
Middle/High School	$2.00	$40.00	$3.50	$70.00
Adult	$2.75	$55.00	$4.25	$85.00
Reduced Price	free	free	$0.40**	$8.00**
Milk	$0.50	$10.00	$0.50	$10.00

 

* Monthly costs assume 20 school days. Actual costs will vary depending on actual number of school days.
** Free for kindergarten through grade 3.

Adding money to a lunch account

There are two 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 $2.49 for each transaction.
2. Send cash or a check made payable to LWSD to the school office with your child’s name attached.

 

Low-balance alerts

Parents will receive a SchoolMessenger email when their student’s lunch account is low or negative on funds. Phone calls are made by this system when an account becomes negative $1.00 or more.

If you wish to be taken off the list or would prefer to receive negative balance notifications via email, please call us at 425-936-1393. Please note that we cannot guarantee that your child will receive a whole lunch should their account balance show insufficient funds.

Apply for Free or Reduced-Price Meals

Depending on your family income and size, your student may qualify for free or reduced-price meals. To apply for free or reduced-price meals:

1. Please print the application/aplicación*
2. Fill it out completely submit application one of these ways:
   • Scan and email it to F-RMealapp@lwsd.org, or
   • Return it to your child’s school office, or
   • Drop it off at the Resource Center, 16250 NE 74th St., Redmond, WA, or
   • Mail it to: Business Services, PO Box 97039, Redmond, WA 98052

*For applications in other languages, please go to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service website.

Note: Children of parents who qualify for Basic Food, formerly known as food stamps, are automatically enrolled in the free lunch program. For more information, go to www.foodhelp.wa.gov.

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.

 

Lake Washington School District Meal Charge Procedure

LWSD’s Nutrition Services Department takes pride in providing nutritious meals to students to support learning each school day. It is the responsibility of parents or guardians to prepay for school meals, provide a meal from home, or complete an annual application establishing eligibility for free or reduced price meals.

Under no circumstance do we want a child to go without a meal during the school day. Students will be allowed to debit their school meal account for the purchase of a complete breakfast or lunch when their account shows insufficient funds or when the student does not have sufficient funds in the form of cash or a check. The purchase of ala carte items including 2^nd entrees, milk or juice and snacks are strictly prohibited when an account is negative or will become negative due to the charge.

Adults are not allowed to charge a meal or purchase any ala carte items if they have a negative balance on their account or will become negative due to the charge.

Nutrition Services will make every effort to communicate with families the status of their student’s low and negative meal account balances through the following efforts:

Accounts with low balances of $10 or less:

• Families will receive an automated email message twice a week (Mondays & Wednesdays) regarding their child’s meal account balance.
• Families who utilize MySchoolBucks to manage their child’s account can set alerts that will notify you when an account balance reaches a certain point. This is managed strictly by the parent.

Accounts with negative balances:

• Families will receive an automated phone call and an email message three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) regarding their child’s meal account balance. Notifications will continue until account balance is paid off.
• Families will receive a personal phone call from the Nutrition Services Office once their child’s balance reaches a negative $15.
• 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.

We strongly encourage families to complete the School Meal Benefit application annually to determine if they qualify for free or reduced priced meals. The School Meal Benefit application may be completed throughout the school year if a family’s income changes. The School Meal Benefit application is available here.

Families are encouraged to enroll in the online prepayment service www.myschoolbucks.com for meal account payments and account tracking. There is a convenience fee for this payment service, however, there is no fee associated with account balance inquires through MySchoolBucks.

Families should contact Nutrition Services for the following:

• If you do not want your child to purchase a meal once their account is negative or if you want to restrict the purchase of a la carte foods, an alert can be placed on their student’s account.
• If you need assistance with payment options to address school meal charges.
• Questions regarding negative school meal balances.

Nutrition Services
Phone:425-936-1393
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Revised: 8/7/2017

 

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. Lake Washington School District’s nutrition, health and physical fitness policy (6700) can be found here.
 
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.

LWSD Wellness Policy Assessment