Meals

The PTA is working hard to update this site.

In the meantime, please click here to learn more about how BUSD Students will be served Free Breakfast and Lunch at all TK-12 Schools for the 2023-24 school year:

This year's breakfast and lunch menus are available at the school and here.

We recognize the important connection between a healthy diet and a student’s ability to learn effectively and achieve high standards in school.

Breakfast

All Berkeley Unified students may eat a free nutritious breakfast every day as part of the Universal Breakfast Program. Breakfast items include fresh fruit, yogurt, cereal and a muffin or bread.

Lunch

Students may bring lunch from home, or buy school lunch for $4.00 daily. You can prepay online at EZSchoolPay.com or by bring a check to the school office to set up an account. Children may also pay with cash.

Berkeley Unified has a School Lunch Initiative (SLI), which has two goals:

  1. To serve more nutritious and delicious, freshly prepared meals using locally grown food to all of our students, and

  2. To educate children in kitchen, garden and academic classrooms about their food choices and the impact those choices have on their health, the community and the environment.

Families will receive an Elementary School Menu at the beginning of the school year that shows the breakfasts and lunches for the entire school year. Here are a list of Gluten-free lunch options.

Free and reduced price lunches are available to those who qualify. Washington asks all families to apply for free/reduced price lunch online, regardless of income. Even if you don’t intend to use the free lunch program, every qualified application brings funding to our schools. For help, call the Office of Family Equity and Engagement at (510) 644-8991.

Lunch Payment

For the 2021-22 school year, all students K-12 are automatically eligible for free breakfast and free lunch every day they are in school. Read the full meal charge policy in English or Spanish.

Lunch from Home

Click here for information about how to pack a Zero Waste Lunch.

If your child brings a lunch from home, please pack nutritious foods in a lunch box or sturdy bag, striving for a zero waste lunch with reusable, recyclable or compost degradable packaging. Backpacks are not allowed in the cafeteria or out on the playground during lunchtime.

We want to encourage all students to develop healthy eating habits. As part of our school-wide rules and BUSD nutrition guidelines candy, chips, soda and gum are not allowed at school.