Food & Nutrition

Longview Public Schools will be participating in a federal program as part of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program called Community Eligibility Program (CEP). This means that all students districtwide are eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no charge throughout the 2022-23 to 2025-26 school year regardless of family or household income. However, some of the education programs the district provides are funded by state dollars that require our schools to collect household information for all students attending CEP schools.   

While meals for all students will remain free again this year, we will ask families to fill out the Education Benefits Form. This form replaces the Free and Reduced-Price Meal Application. The information collected from the Education Benefits Form will ensure your child’s school receives the full amount of federal and state funding and ensures your child receives services they are entitled to when free and reduced-price applications are not required. These programs include before and after school academic and enrichment programs, fee waivers for college applications, admission tests and extra-curricular activities, and resources for classrooms, teachers and students, and many other benefits.    

• Download the form here! - English Download, Spanish Download
• Online through the new student enrollment system
• Forms will be mailed to households in mid-August
• Available in each school office or Nutrition Services located at 2715 Lilac Street

Completed forms should be returned to your school office or Nutrition Services at 2715 Lilac Street. 

If your student has a Special Dietary Need such as allergies and/or digestive conditions, please:

1. Complete, sign, and date the student's section (the top section) of the Special Dietary Request Form
2. Have your Recognized Medical Authority (MD, DO, ND, PA, ARNP) complete and sign the section assigned to them (the bottom section) on the form.
3. Please return the completed and signed form to your School, School Nurse, or to the Nutrition Office.

Diet Prescription for students form: English Download, Spanish Download, Chuukese Download

Special Diet Request Forms must be fully complete and signed by a recognized medical authority (MD, DO, ND, PA, ARNP) to be used in our USDA programs.

The Longview School District Nutrition Services will do its due diligence to accommodate all students with a Special Dietary Request on file. Please understand we are not equipped to operate contaminate-free kitchens and will do our best by using separate utensils, prep areas, and cooking equipment where possible. We cannot guarantee there will not be any cross-contamination. If your child has a life-threatening allergy, the safest option is always a meal prepared at home.

Longview Nutrition Services Procedure for Handling Complaints of Discrimination

1. Complaints of discrimination must be filed within 180 days of the alleged discrimination.
2. Complaints of discrimination should be given to the Chief Nutrition Officer of Child Nutrition Services, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Chief Nutrition Officer will forward to the Food & Nutrition Service, Western Regional Office, San Francisco.
3. Complaints of discrimination may be written or verbal. Use of a form is not required for a person filing a complaint. If a person is unwilling, unable, or not inclined to put the complaint in writing, the person taking the complaint shall do so. (Complaint Form Downloadable here*)
4. Complaints of discrimination should contain as much of the following information as possible:
   1. Name, address, email address, and telephone number or other means of containing the complainant.
   2. The specific location and name of the entity providing the benefits.
   3. A description of a specific action that caused the complainant to believe that discrimination was a factor.
   4. Basis on which a complainant feels that discrimination occurred (race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation to prior civil rights activity).
   5. Names and titles, if known, and addresses of persons who may have knowledge of the discriminatory action.
   6. The date(s) of the alleged discriminatory actions occurred or the duration of such action.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

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