Free and Reduced-Priced Meals

Applications for free and reduced-priced meals are available at your school. You may also download the application from this website in English or Spanish. Please fill out the form and return it to your child’s school office by September 18, 2009. As a courtesy, all students who qualified for free or reduced-priced lunches last June will remain eligible until October 2, 2009. After that date, students must have a new application completed and returned to the school office to continue to receive free or reduced-priced meals.

Point-of-Sale System

Rochester City School District uses the NutriKids computerized meal pay system. Please look for a detailed explanation of this system in a separate letter. For those of you new to the school district, we'd like to outline our Point-of-Sale (POS) system. The POS system benefits you, your child, and the school in a number of practical ways. We hope that you and your student will consider taking advantage of some of these convenient options. Please read the following information carefully.

• We will be using a computerized cash register system to ease the payment process for your child. Here’s how it will work:
• You can add money to your child's account by filling out an envelope and sealing the payment inside. Your child can give this envelope to any cashier at his/her school. The funds will be placed on the student's account. You may also use the district food service webpage to place funds electronically on your student's account.
• The envelope should be clearly marked with your child's name, grade, and homeroom. If the payment is for more than one child, indicate how the money should be split (for example, Johnny = $10.00 and Sally = $15.00).
• We encourage payment be made in the form of a money order made payable to Rochester City School District or Office of Food Services. Cash payments will also be accepted.
• Payment can be made in any amount your budget will allow. Students who have money on account will not have to worry about lunch money every morning and will go through the lunch line more quickly at school.
• In addition to cash and money orders, we will be implementing additional features available with the NutriKids POS System.
  • An online payment option with credit card payment will be available to parents who would like to deposit money in their child’s account.
  • Additional information will be forwarded as this online option becomes available.
  • Credit card payments will only be accepted with online payment.
• All students have been assigned an ID number to access their lunch account. This ID number will be like a PIN for an ATM machine. Students will be issued these numbers the week before we start to serve lunch.
• Students will enter their ID number into a PIN pad prior to the cashier. Please help your child learn this number.

You will also have the ability to view and print out a copy of your child's meal purchase history report. This history report will show all the dates and times that your child has purchased lunch within the past 30 days. Please be advised that when you first create your account, you will only be able to see your child's history for that day. To view the 30-day history, log out and then sign back in again.