Online Application for Free and Reduced-Price Meal Benefits

All families are encouraged to complete the online 2024-2025 Application for Free or Reduced-Price Meal Benefits. A new application must be submitted each school year. If you have already received notification that your family is eligible for free or reduced-price meals for the 2024-2025 school year, follow the instructions provided. Only students with approved applications will receive free or reduced-price meals for the 2024-2025 school year. For more information about the application, click here - information about the Application for Free and Reduced-Priced Meal Benefits. Contact Kyleen Harris, 785-565-5050, kharris@manhattancatholicschools.org if you have any questions.

Online Application for Free or Reduced-Price Meals 2024-2025 (click here) 

2024-2025 Meal Prices and Charge Policy

Meal Prices

School meal prices will increase by 15 cents for the 2024-2025 school year. Student meal prices have not been raised since 2019. The price adjustment is in response to an increase in food and supply costs as well as a decrease in federal reimbursement. The goal is to operate our school meal program at a break-even point. Every effort will be made to keep prices as low as possible while providing nutritious meals to students. Payments (check preferred) can be deposited in the meal payment box inside the elementary school gym. Please make checks payable to MCS Lunchroom and include the student’s name in the memo. One check can be submitted for all student's in the same family. 

 Meal Charge Policy   

Fresh veggies offered daily!

Homemade Lunchables

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at:  https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted 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; or

   (2)   fax:
           (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or

   (3)   email:
           program.intake@usda.gov

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.