FREE AND REDUCED PROGRAM INFORMATION:

Christina School District, Child Nutrition Services participates in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced-price meals, for which students can be charged no more than 40 cents.

This program is managed in accordance with The National School Lunch Act, policies established by the Christina School District Board of Education, the Department of Health, and the Delaware Department of Education.  Part of the program is the approval of meal benefit forms for free and reduced price school meals.  Parents of eligible students are reminded that a new meal benefit form must be completed each school year within the first 30 days of school or your child's continued benefits will be lost.  Eligible parents need to fill out only one form per household.  Guardians must however, complete one form per student for each foster child living in a household.

Meal Benefit Forms for the 2008-09 School Year will be accepted by Child Nutrition Services July 1, 2008.  

English and Spanish Meal Benefit Forms will be available.