Nutrition & School Meals

This Year in School Food - Here's a Quick Guide Link to this section

1. All School Meals are Free for Students Again This Year! 
   1. 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, and 1 Supper Daily
   2. Regardless of income
2. The 24-25 Multipurpose Family Income Form is open and accepting submissions
   1. This does not impact meal eligibility
   2. This DOES impact school funding and eligibility for other community benefits
3. Find Menus at sfusd.edu/menus
4. Student Meal Pins will be launched at most middle schools by September 2.
   1. Meal Pins do not charge student accounts - school meals are still free for all students
5. Breakfast & Lunch 
   1. At Breakfast, students must take a serving of fruit for a complete and nutritious meal
   2. At Lunch, students must take at least one serving of fruit and/or veggie for a complete and nutritious meal
6. Special Meal Requests 
   1. Special meal requests are accommodated with a signature from a licensed medical professional. Student Nutrition Services is able to support special meal accommodations through our Marina Middle School Kitchen and McAteer Culinary Center. Please see sfusd.edu/specialmeals for the full process.

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24-25 School Food Guide

• Every day we offer a nutritionally balanced breakfast, including fresh fruit and optional milk. Thanks to California Meals for All, all SFUSD schools will offer free breakfast.
• Breakfast is served at the times listed above.
• During the School Year - We work directly with schools to set up Breakfast in the Classroom and other Breakfast After the Bell programs that are supportive, safe, and operationally sustainable.

• Every day we offer a choice of full entrees, with whole fruit, vegetable sides, and optional milk. To receive a free lunch, remember to pick a fruit or vegetable for maximum nutrition! Even if you bring lunch from home, grab a free milk, fruit, and vegetable for extra energy!
• During the summer, all meals are supplied by our meal vendor, Revolution Foods, and served by SNS Dining Staff.
• During the school year, the following schools serve our Refresh menu, where meals are prepared and packed in the school’s kitchen by a team of SNS Dining Staff:
  • A.P. Giannini Middle, Aptos Middle, Balboa High, Burton High, Denman Middle, Everett Middle, Galileo High, Herbert Hoover Middle, James Lick Middle, June Jordan High, Lincoln High, Lowell High, Marina Middle, Mission High, ML King Middle, Presidio Middle, Roosevelt Middle, Thurgood Marshall High, Washington High, and Willie Brown Middle
  • Early Education Schools (on independent campuses), Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and The Academy at McAteer serve meals prepared at the McAteer Culinary Center

• The supper menu offers a balanced meal to students after school at qualifying schools. Any youth 18 and under can access a supper meal, regardless of program enrollment. All meals must be eaten on site and cannot be taken to go. Supper is served during after school programs at the following schools for the 2024-2025 school year:
  • Alvarado ES, Bret Harte ES, Bret Harte ES/KIPP, Bryant ES, Bryant ES, Carver ES, Chavez ES, Chin ES, Cleveland ES, Cobb ES, Dolores Huerta ES, Drew ES, El Dorado ES, ER Taylor, Feinstein ES, Flynn ES, Garfield ES, Glen Park ES, Grattan ES, Guadalupe ES, Harvey Milk ES, Hillcrest ES, J. Serra ES, Lakeshore ES, Lau ES, Lau ES/Commodore Stockton EED, Longfellow ES, Malcolm X ES, Marshall ES, McKinley ES, Miraloma ES, Mission Education Center ES, Monroe ES, Moscone ES, Moscone ES/Las Americas EED, Muir ES, Ortega ES, Parker ES, Redding ES, Rosa Parks ES, Sanchez ES, SF Montessori, Sheridan ES, Sherman ES, Sloat ES, Spring Valley ES, Starr King ES, Sunnyside ES, Sutro ES, Tenderloin ES, Ulloa ES, Vis Valley ES, Webster ES, West Portal ES, Yick Wo ES, Bessie Carmichael (PK-5), BVHM, Lawton, Paul Revere, SF Community, Aptos MS, Brown MS, Denman MS, Dr. Martin Luther King MS, Everett MS, Francisco MS, Hoover MS, James Lick MS, Marina MS, Roosevelt MS, Vis Valley MS, Balboa HS, Burton HS, Galileo HS, June Jordan HS, Mission HS, John O'Connell HS, SF International HS, Washington HS

​​​​​​We can provide bagged lunches for field trips. School staff should visit the Field Trip Transportation Services webpage for more information on how to request field trip meals for students.

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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, 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/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.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.