Food Services
Food Service Director
Cassie McGowan
513-732-2343 x. 7268
2024-2025 Free and Reduced Lunch PAPER Application (Download)
2024-2025 Free and Reduced Lunch ONLINE Application
The online application requirements are the same as the paper application and will require the same information. Visit Freedom Café at the link above and either create a new account or log into your existing account to complete the online application process.
Cafeteria Charge Policy
As a school district, we believe in the importance of students having access to nutritious meals, as learning is difficult on an empty stomach. As students will, occasionally, forget food money (or life gets busy for all of us and we forget to add money to our child(ren)'s lunch account), each building allows for student lunch charges. Charges should be the exception, not the norm, and are subject to the following conditions:
All negative cafeteria balances from the 2023/2024 school year have been transferred to a non-waivable student charge obligation, and all students begin the 2024/2025 school with either at $0.00 balance, or the positive balance that carried over from the end of the 2023/2024 school year.
Beginning with the 2024/2025 school year, all negative cafeteria balances will be transferred to a non-waivable school fee at the end of each quarter.
Students who forget their breakfast/lunch money will be allowed to charge their breakfast/lunch at the regular meal price, and parents have the option to direct the cafeteria to not allow their student(s) to charge breakfast/lunch.
Students with a negative cafeteria balance will not be able to purchase a la carte items, and a la carte items may not be charged.
In order to participate in field trips and school dances, all current 2024/2025 school fees, which include negative cafeteria charges incurred during the 2024/2025 school year, must be paid prior to participating in these activities.
Free and reduced price lunch applications will be available online as well as at school for those without computer access.
Non-Discrimination Statement
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
(1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.