Our schools provide healthy meals each day. Our breakfast and lunch selections are nutritious and make a tremendous difference in how our students perform in the classroom: Feed your body, feed your brain!
Each student may eat one breakfast and one lunch per school day free of charge.
We do encourage families to complete the Application for Educational Benefits. Qualifying families may then receive benefits such as reduced activity fees, help with education expenses and some discounts. Please note that students who receive Medicaid or Medicare benefits are automatically enrolled. Start the process by creating your account at www.schoolcafe.com/register.
The district also offers a la carte items for purchase. Students bringing lunch from home, for example, may purchase milk daily for 55 cents per serving. Students are required to have a positive balance in their account to purchase a la carte items
All schools use a computerized school lunch accounting system linked to SchoolCafe. This allows families to deposit money into a personal account for their child. Each student is issued a four- or five-digit identification number that they will enter into a keypad when purchasing a la carte items. The cost will automatically be deducted from the account balance.
Families can deposit money by online payment or send cash or check to the school their child attends. Checks should be written to ISD 256. Checks should also contain the student’s full name on the memo line. The check can be written for multiple students. If doing this, please note this on the check.
Learn more at www.schoolcafe.com.
Jess Peña
Student Nutrition Services Director
Kitchen Managers
Red Wing High School
Donna Latuff-Langhans
dflatuff-langhans@rwps.org
Twin Bluff Middle School
Gwen Fischbach
gafischbach@rwps.org
Burnside Elementary School
Justa Stabe
jmstabe@rwps.org
Sunnyside Elementary School
Jeni Stern
jlstern@rwps.org
Special Diets
If your child has dietary restrictions (such as a peanut or gluten allergy), please contact your child’s school nurse so that an Individualized Health Plan (IHP) can be developed and implemented.
If your child requires a special diet, based on their disability, please fill out the “Special Diet Statement”. This form will need to be signed by a physician. If a child has been determined by a physician to have a disability and the disability prevents the child from participating in the meal service, modifications or substitutions can be made as prescribed by the physician at no additional charge to the student.
Lactose-free milk is available at each school and does not require the Special Diet Form. Instead, a written note from the child’s guardian/parent will suffice.
Fundraising and Smart Snacks
The United States Department of Agriculture requires that any fundraising taking place within a school and involves consumable items must comply with Smart Snack standards.
Organizations wishing to host a food or beverage fundraiser in school must complete two steps.
- Submit a completed Food or Beverage form to the governing body that approves fundraisers within the school district.
- Submit the Red Wing Public Schools fundraiser application form, which is required for any fundraiser. See Policy 511.
Minnesota Department of Health Inspection Reports & Licensure
Civil Rights/Complaints
USDA Nondiscrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at How to File a Program Discrimination Complaint and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter 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
(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or
(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
