Wappingers Central School District

A lunch includes five meal components. Students are offered all five components to the meal; however, one must be a fruit or vegetable. 

• Milk 
  • 1% unflavored
  • Skim, flavored
  • Skim, unflavored
• Fruit
• Vegetable
• Grain
• Protein

Elementary and Middle School students will be offered 1/2 cup fruit and 1/2 cup vegetable minimum.

High School students will be offered 1 cup of fruit and 1 cup of vegetable minimum.

Students must take at least 1 choice of fruit or vegetable daily with their meal choice to be charged the meal price.

Students refusing both the fruit and vegetable component must be charged a la carte prices for the items on their tray. 

The following effects students at all levels K-12:

• 5 vegetable groups must be offered once each week
  • Dark Green
  • Red/Orange
  • Legumes (Dried Beans & Peas)
  • Starchy
  • Other as defined in Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Under construction for the 2025-26 school year.

Parents have three options to pay for their students' meals:

1. ONLINE-Establish debit account through SchoolBucks – Website
   The service is easy to use, convenient, private, and secure. To access their account, students enter their student ID number on a key pad. You’ll need your child’s student ID to register. Once the account is open, parents may check the funds at any time. A separate convenience fee of $2.75 is charged for each family member's transaction. Credit card payments take about 24 hours to show on the account, while e-checks may take several days. Students can use their account to purchase breakfast, lunch and a la carte items.
2. CHECK
   Write a check made payable to WCSD School Lunch Fund. Include the student's ID number and name on the check. If the payment is for more than one student in the same school only, indicate how the money should be split on the check (for example, Johnny=$10.00 and Sally=$15.00). Students can give it to the cashier at meal service for instant updating of the account.
    
3. CASH
   Cash may be brought to the cashier at meal service for deposit to the student’s account, or students may pay cash on a daily basis. We highly recommend account and check deposits instead of cash.

Please click the link to review: USDA: Offer vs Serve Lunch Program

Under construction for the 2025-26 school year.

MySchoolbucks – Website  has a handy low balance alert feature which alerts you by email when a set threshold you establish is exceeded.  Also, cashiers have been instructed to notify students verbally and or by note when their lunch account has a three-day balance.  Notes will be given to the student each day and hopefully will be carried home.  A detailed printout of student purchases is available upon request.

Yes.

To assist parents/guardians who do not want their children to purchase a la carte items, we are able to limit account purchases to include meals only.

To request a “meals only” block, please send a letter or send an email to foodservice@wcsdny.org.  Please include your child’s name, ID number and school. Your request will take aproximately 1-2 days to take effect upon receipt of your request.

A la carte items are offered as a supplement to purchased meals or meals brought from home. In elementary schools, students are limited to only two a la carte items provided they have a lunch from home or a school lunch.

A la carte items meet the district wellness policy standards of:

<=35% calories from fat

<= 10% saturated fat

< 35% sugar by weight

Meal account transfers can be requested by sending the following information to foodservice@wcsdny.org

Under construction for the 2025-26 school year.

Whether you deposit money by credit card or make prepayments by check or cash at school, parents can view their child(ren)'s balances and 90 days of meal purchase history on myschoolbucks.com with prior registration. There is no fee for viewing balances and meals purchased with cash or a check.

Meal account refunds can be requested by sending the following information to foodservice@wcsdny.org

• Student Name
• Student ID # (listed on the student's schedule)
• School Name
• Parent Name
• Street Address
• City, State and Zip code
• Phone #

Grades K-8
We have a charge policy in grades K-8 which allows students to charge a limited amount of meals; a la carte items cannot be charged and

Grades 9-12
There is no charging in grades 9-12.

Please call our office at 845-298-5075 before the student’s lunch and we can override any of these limitations.