Student Pricing

Elementary Breakfast-$1.95
MS/HS Breakfast-$2.05
Reduced Breakfast-$0.30
Elementary Lunch-$2.95
MS/HS Lunch-$3.25
Reduced Lunch-$0.40

Milk – $.70

Juice – $.50

Adult Pricing

Breakfast- $2.45
Lunch-$4.35

Pre-Payment Options

Please take advantage of the options to prepay your student's meal accounts. Prepaid meal accounts help the lunch lines go faster and gives students more time to eat, relax, and play. It also gives you the peace of mind not having to worry about looking for lunch money every day or worry that it might get lost, stolen. or used for things other than lunch. 

If you have any questions or concerns about your student's account, a free and reduced lunch application, or your MySchoolBucks account, please call our office at 816-994-4800. 

Online Payments 

MySchoolBucks

Online payments are a simple, safe, and secure way to make payments to your students account 24 hours a day at your convenience. 

Send Cash or Check 

You can always bring money personally or send it with your student. Please place it in an envelope marked clearly with your students name, their ID number, their teacher's name, the money amount and the check number. Turn in prepaid deposits to the cafeteria cashier(s) or school office. 

If you choose to bring money to school personally or send it with your student, please put it in an envelope clearly marked with the student's first and last name, their ID number, their teacher's name, and the amount enclosed. 

Extra Entrée Items and Snacks:

All entree and side items may be purchased as either an individual a la carte selection or in combinations in order to make up a regular lunch.  If purchased separately, entrees are $1.70, premium entrees are $2.00 and side items are $0.65.  Snack items and drinks such as chips, crackers, cookies, and ice cream are available to purchase during meal times.  All snacks, drinks, and entrees do have to qualify under the USDA Smart Snack Guidelines for Schools.

Student's are not allowed to charge extra entrees and/or snack items.  There must be enough in their school account to purchase the items at the time of purchase.

Some of our elementary schools have individual policies on snack sales.  Please contact your school if you have questions concerning snacks.

If you do not want your child buying extra items or you would like to put restrictions on their account, please contact Angie Novak at anovak@gvr5.net or 816-994-4812

Nutrition and Fitness 

The winning recipe for a healthy lifestyle includes a combination of both good nutrition and physical activity. Your body needs a variety of nutrient rich foods to grow and prevent illness. Your body also needs to move and exercise every day! 

Key things you need to know about living a healthy lifestyle are: 

• Eat a healthy diet that includes fruits, vegetables, and whole grain products. 
• Control portion sizes.
• Get active for at least 60 minutes, five times a week for ages 6-18. 
• Avoid tobacco and illegal drugs all together. 

Well-nourished students have higher test scores, increased school attendance, improved concentration, and improved classroom behavior. Students who are physically fit sleep better and are more equipped to handle the physical and emotional challenges that they encounter during the day.  

Meal Modifications for Allergies, Intolerance and Disability

Grain Valley Schools:

• Will, at all times, make meal modifications prescribed by a licensed physician to accommodate a disability.
• Will, at its discretion, make meal modifications prescribed by a licensed physician due to a food allergy/intolerance or other medical condition that does not rise to the level of a disability. Please contact Food Services to discuss modification possibilities.

Grain Valley School District Food Service must receive the medical statement before the school can modify a student's meals. Parents should follow the medical statement instructions carefully for each meal category. Each section must be entirely completed
and signed by a physician before modifications can be started. Parents with questions should contact Andy Hughes or 816-994-4812. Otherwise please email the completed medical statement to Andy Hughes or mail it to:

Grain Valley North Middle School
Attention: Andy Hughes
31608 E Pink Hill Rd
Grain Valley, MO 64029

Medical Statement to Request Meal Modification

Nut Allergy Policy

Due to the large number of severe nut allergies in our district, Grain Valley produces school meals as nut free as possible. Nut products are avoided in any produced item in our kitchens. There are nut products in the building for use in the catering department. These items are prepared on separate tables from where school items are produced. Grain Valley Schools checks all ingredient labels of purchased items for the elementary meals to ensure, to the best of our ability, they do not contain nut ingredients or processed in a plant that manufactures peanut products. However, there are prepackaged products that contain nuts in the secondary snack/a la carte lines as well as
Uncrustable sandwiches served for breakfast.

The Grain Valley School District understands that adequate nutrition is essential to students’ mental, physical, and academic growth.  However, unpaid meal charges place a large financial burden on our Nutrition Services Department.  The District participates in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).  District students, whether at the free-, reduced-, or paid-rate, will receive a full reimbursable breakfast and/or lunch meal that meets USDA requirements regardless of whether they have, or do not have, adequate money in their student account to cover the cost of the meal at the time of service.  No reimbursable meal will be taken from any District student in the event there are no funds or a negative balance in a student’s meal account.  

Prepackaged snacks and drinks will not be allowed to be charged if a student does not have enough funds in their account.  

Students who put extra servings of hot entrée items on their tray will be charged for those items regardless of pay status.  

Although a District student may carry a negative balance, it is the student’s parent/guardian that is responsible for payment in order to keep the student’s balance from becoming negative.  If a student has a negative balance prior to becoming eligible for free or reduced meals, the parent/guardian is still responsible for that balance. To accommodate students who purchase school meals, payment options include an online payment system that will take credit and debit cards, or cash and check payments may be made at all school sites.

Parents/guardians of students with negative account balances will also receive daily emails to remind them to make a payment to cover their student’s negative balance.  

A District student’s balance, whether positive or negative in nature, will follow the student throughout their academic career.  The parent/guardian is still responsible for the negative balance accrued even if the student graduates at the end of their senior year or transfers out of the district.  Upon request, positive balances may be refunded or moved to another student’s account(s).  

If charges continue without repayment: 

• Parent/guardian may be contacted by school staff to offer services or assistance as needed.
• Parent/guardian may be encouraged to submit a Free- And Reduced-Priced Meal Application. 

Employees are not allowed to charge meals and must provide payment at the time of service.  

This written policy will be provided, through mail or email, to all District household families at the start of the school year and to all families transferring into the District throughout the course of the year.  When enforced to a particular student, this written policy will be provided again to the District household through mail or email.  

This written policy will be provided to all school staff responsible for policy enforcement including, but not limited to:  school food service professionals responsible for collecting payment for meals at the point of service, staff involved in notifying families of low or negative balances, and staff involved in enforcing any other aspects of the meal charge policy, school social workers, school nurses, the family school liaison, and other staff members that may assist students in need, principals, assistant principals, and any other administrators. 

DEFINITIONS:

What Is a National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, Meal?

For lunch, all meals must provide five components:  fruit, vegetables, meat/meat alternates, grains, and milk.  For a lunch to be a program meal, the meal must contain ½-cup fruit or vegetables and at least two other servings from the five component groups.  Three of the five components must be chosen with one of those components being either a fruit or vegetable for the meal to be reimbursable. 

What Is a School Breakfast Program, or SBP, Meal?

There are three component groups that make up the breakfast meal pattern:  grains (with optional meat/meat alternate allowed), fruit, fluid milk.  For the breakfast meal to be a program meal the three components must be served. 

What Is a Charged Meal?

A charged meal occurs when a student enters the cashier line with a program meal and does not have the funds in his/her account or in-hand to sufficiently pay for the program meal.  These meals are not taken from students.    

District employees are mandated by the State of Missouri to report any instances of suspected abuse or neglect to the Children’s Division (CD) of the Department of Social Services.  District personnel will report to the CD any instance where a student’s arrival at school with no provision for food leads to a reasonable cause to suspect neglect. 

Donations

Individuals wanting to donate may make donations to individual schools to pay off all or some unpaid meal charges.  Parents/Guardians of students who are graduating or transferring out of the district can donate the positive balance in their student’s meal account to pay off other students’ unpaid meal charges.  Requests should be submitted to the Nutrition Services Department with the student’s name and ID number.