Child Nutrition

Breakfast in the Classroom 

• All schools are classified as Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) schools for 2024-2025.

• Please make sure your entire staff understands that your school is a CEP school and that students eat at “no charge”.  Please share the benefits of CEP for our students and your school’s procedures regarding breakfast in the classroom at your back to school staff meeting. 

• Staff and student helpers can begin picking up their coolers and warmers in the cafeteria at 7:30 am each day.

• Student participation in Breakfast in the Classroom is very important; please encourage all staff to get involved in the process. 

• Students are required to get a “minimum” meal. The Child Nutrition Department is available to assist you and your staff with meal requirements. 

• Schools should strategically plan how this 10-15 minutes of additional learning time should look in their classrooms.  

• Coolers can remain in the classroom longer this year and can be taken back to the cafeteria on the way to the cafeteria for lunch.  The red warmers need to be taken back to the cafeteria in the morning.

• You must send a student’s breakfast back to the cafeteria if they are absent.

• If a student was absent the day before and could not pre-order his/her lunch, the student should be allowed to go to the cafeteria to pick up breakfast. 

• Update After School Program rosters weekly. 

Lunch (New Info)

• Students will continue to order using the Google Doc for preparation.

• Students will need their ID cards or Powerschool number.

• Students will come through the serving line and choose their meal items, then eat in the cafeteria.