Food Service

Healthy meals equal healthy students
 

Port Jervis schools participate in the National School Lunch Program, which regulates and subsidizes the provision of complete, nutritionally balanced lunches. Menus now include many changes to reduce fats and increase grains, fruits and vegetables.
 

Free and Reduced-Priced Lunch Application
The district is urging families to take advantage of the free and reduced-priced meals available through the National School Lunch Program. Application packets will be sent home with students the first day of school. The application can also be downloaded below.

Those who qualify will be eligible for free or reduced-priced lunches. The price for reduced meals is just .25 cents. This could save your family close to $500 a year per child!

Who can get free meals? Applications for free or reduced-priced lunch may be completed anytime during the school year when a family’s income changes.
   • The confidential program is available to all households that meet
    federal income guidelines - and these guidelines are higher than
    you might expect.
   • Students whose families receive food stamps or other aids such
    as TANE, WIC, or HEAP are automatically eligible - regardless of
    their income.
   • Most foster children, as well as homeless and migrant children,
    are eligible.

Protecting your children's privacy - When students go through the lunch line, they carry nothing that would identify them as a participant in the free and reduced meal program. They simply enter their student Pin number into the automated payment system and the cashier automatically processes the transaction.

Applications - The completed application should be returned to Food Service Director Thomas Preiskines. For answers to questions regarding the application or assistance completing the application, please call Mr. Preiskines at 858-3124.

• Application for Free and Reduced-Priced Lunch

Please note the above opens in "pdf" format and requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to download and print. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you can get a free copy from the Adobe web site.
 

Free Breakfast: All Port Jervis students are entitled to receive free breakfasts. Breakfast is provided to elementary school students in their classrooms. At the High/Middle School, breakfast items are available for students in their school cafeteria. They also have the option of purchasing a la carte breakfast items.

Lunch: Students can purchase a complete lunch including milk, just milk, or a la carte and snack items. They are also offered the following alternatives to the daily menu items - peanut butter and jelly, tuna fish sandwich, and the sandwich of the day.

• Elementary Schools - September

• Middle School & High School  - September

Please note the above open in "pdf" format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to download and print. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you can get a free copy from the Adobe web site.
 

Lunch prices for the 2010-11 school year are the same as last year. Many students qualify for free or reduced priced lunches. More information on the program is listed below. 

2010-2011 School Year Prices  

High School & Middle School
Free breakfast
Hot lunch: $2.50
Milk: $ .45
Snack Prices 

Elementary schools
Free Breakfast
Hot lunch: $2
Milk: $ .45
Snack Prices

School cafeterias receive top health ratings

Port Jervis Middle School and Hamilton Bicentennial Elementary School cafeterias are two of the cleanest school cafeterias in Orange County. According to a 2007 Health Department inspection report, the Port Jervis cafeterias earned this distinction by being two of only 15 cafeterias county-wide to compile unspoiled health inspection records since January 2005. Click here to read the Times Herald-Record article on the cafeteria inspection and view the rating lists.  

Automated accounts provide faster service

With the use of a new computerized system, Food Service tracks student information including account balances and food purchases. Each student uses a personal Pin number when he or she purchases meals. By eliminating the old pen and paper tally sheets, the cafeteria staff is able to serve students quicker and more efficiently - reducing the time students spend waiting in line. 
 

Questions about food service areas can be addressed to
Food Service Director Thomas Preiskines, 858-3124, or tpreiskines@pjschools.org
 

• Application for Free and Reduced-Priced Lunch

• Lunch Menus
   September
   PJMS/PJHS
   Elementary

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