LUNCH PROGRAM
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Children need healthy meals to learn. Chariho Regional School District offers healthy meals every day. For the 2025-2026 school year, breakfast and lunch will be provided to all students per standard rates. However, completing the meal benefit application may help allow your family to qualify for the free and reduced lunch and/or other meal benefit programs, which provides additional food benefits to qualifying families via EBT or SNAP EBT card.
Meal Benefit Application
** Please note: Meal Benefit Applications must be filled out every year**
If you wish to fill out your meal benefit application online, please click here Meal Benefit Online Application. Once processed, your determination letter will be mailed out to you.
The PDF application is still available here in both English and Spanish. Once you complete the Meal Benefits Application it can be emailed to Mealbenefitapplications@chariho.k12.ri.us or printed and mailed to:
Chariho Regional School District Business Office
Attn: Heidi Tiernan
455A Switch Rd.
Wood River Junction, RI 02894
Direct Certified Meal Benefits Information
If your student qualifies for Free/Reduced meals through programs such as Medicaid or SNAP and you have received a letter from the State of Rhode Island, please forward a copy to your students school or email a copy to mealbenefitapplications@chariho.k12.ri.us
MySchoolBucks Information
MySchoolBucks is a convenient, easy and secure online prepayment service you can use to deposit money, check balances and view meal purchases made by your student's at any time.
To access MySchoolBucks:
Download or go to the MySchoolBucks webpage
Create an account.
You will need to search for Chariho Regional School District (zip code is 02894)
You will need your student's ID number. (This number is available on your students schedule, report card or in the new student parent web letter.)
Things to know:
If you have more than one child in the District you can handle all online pre-payments from the same online account.
Payments may be made through an existing PayPal account or with a major credit or debit card.
Payments are generally processed by PayPal within 24 hours. However, if the payment option selected is an eCheck, processing may take anywhere from 4 to 7 business days. If you opt to pay via eCheck, please allow a minimum lead time of one week before the funds are made available in your child's account.
In order to use the online prepayment service, a small convenience fee for each transaction will be assessed to cover the bank fees. The convenience fee is $3.25 per deposit transaction. Parents placing money into multiple meal accounts will only be assessed the $3.25 fee once per deposit transaction.
Chariho School District does not profit from the use of this site.
MySchoolBucks customer service number: 1-855-832-5226
Other ways to Pay/Add Funds to your student's account
Cash or Check:
Please make checks out to Chariho School Lunch Program and include your student's full name on the note line.
If you are sending in cash, please place cash in a white envelope (no plastic baggies) with your child's name, teacher's name, date and amount written on the outside of the envelope to assure funds will be applied correctly.
Credit Card payment over the phone:
You can call the business office at 401-364-3260 to add funds/make payments to your student account
Chartwells Information
Jennifer Frost - Assistant Director of Food & Nutrition Services - 401-552-7078
Meal prices by school can be found Here
School Menus can be found Here
USDA Non-Discrimination Statement can be found Here
Rhode Island Sumer Lunch Program information can be found Here
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program information can be found Here
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