On Wednesday, October 5th Student Nutrition Services will report school-level data of free and reduced percentages. This data will provide a snapshot of students enrolled as of that day and drives the funding under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) for your school. Examples of how the data impacts:

• All schools where 50% or more students meet the income eligibility standards for free or reduced-priced benefits are eligible for free supper programs for all students.
• High Schools where 75% or more students qualify for free or reduced-priced benefits are eligible for Title I funding, which means thousands of dollars for your school. This funding is equal to about two additional teachers or other staff positions.
• Early Education School Sites have one deadline every school year: the last day in October. The Free and Reduced % is then locked for the entire school year, and determines the reimbursement rate (funding amount) for the freshly prepared meals served to our little ones by the McAteer Culinary kitchen.

Please look at your schools free and reduced % 's in this link: view school-level data.
This provides:

• The number of students that have submitted the form and qualify as free, reduced or paid.
• The number of students that have not submitted the form which impacts your schools Free and Reduced %.
• Monthly updates on the SNS Employee Webpage at sfusd.edu/employees/schoolfoodresources

There is still time to increase your School's F/R %, please act now.

• Find out who still needs to submit a MFIF. Use this link: Synergy, to learn how to access a list of students by homeroom select #58 or with parent contacts #59. The report is updated nightly as applications are processed. Please allow up to 5 days for online applications to be processed.
   
• Email this message to parents who have not submitted a form:

              Dear Parent/Guardian 

              Please submit the SFUSD 2022-23 Multipurpose Family Income Form online at SchoolCafé.com, select state
              CA and district San Francisco USD. Note that you can apply as a guest if you don't want to create an account. 
              If you know you don't qualify, mark the refused benefit option to skip to the end. Every form counts to help your
             school funding.

              Links to helpful resources 

              * Important Meal Program Info - Eng/Sp/Ch/Vie 

             * SchoolCafe Parent MFIF Quick Guide

             * SFUSD.edu/MFIF

              If you need assistance with SchoolCafé.com, please contact the Student School Family Resource Link at
              415.340.1716 email SchoolLunch@sfusd.edu.