Another exciting school year is here!! We continue to add school lunch options that are healthy and what students want to eat. This year we will have even more options available every day for breakfast. If your school offers breakfast, we encourage your student to try it!! Your child eats a healthy breakfast, and you have more time in the morning!                      		

**New menus this year will reflect proven STUDENT FAVORITES at each school!  
Each K-8 school will have a different, school favorite specific, cycle menu.  
High Schools will have the same menu format, but featuring the student favorites.  
The new menus for 2019-2020 will be posted on www.sylvaniaschools.org after August 9th 2019.  
Menus will be updated again after winter break.  

We encourage parents to deposit money online into the student’s meal account at www.myschoolbucks.com  or to send a check or cash with your student to school. Funds will be deposited by the next business day.  When sending in money, please include the student’s ID number on the check and envelope, so it is deposited into the correct account.  All information is securely contained within our point of sale system. 

Our system allows students to charge full meals and carry a balance. We will not take food from a child in the lunch line if student has no money on the account, nor food or cash with him/her. We will charge the student account for the food/drink. Periodically, notification is sent to the parent/guardian for any meal account balance over $20.00 in arrears. Quarterly, all meal account balances with charges over $10.00 in arrears are transferred to the student’s Power School account and collected by the Treasurer’s Office with other school fees. All meal charges are the responsibility of the student’s parent or guardian and will be collected.
*We ask that you submit a request via email to jshamy@sylvaniaschools.org or in writing to the food services department if you do not want your student to be able to charge meals. There are a variety of ways to configure limitations on your student’s account. You may call the food service office at 419-824-8655 or 419-824-8511 to discuss the options available. 
     
For families that need assistance with school meals, our free and reduced meal application will be available online after July 25th at www.sylvania.heartlandapps.com. The online application is private, easy and submitted electronically. During the regular school year, we process these each morning.  All students who were approved last school year for free or reduced meals will be on a temporary status through October 1st 2019. 
YOU MUST FILL OUT A NEW APPLICATION FOR EACH NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEFORE THE TEMPORARY STATUS EXPIRES TO AVOID LOSS OF MEAL BENEFITS. If needed, paper copies of the free and reduced meal application will be kept in the schools’ main offices after August 19th, 2019 or may be obtained at: 

Sylvania Schools, Student Services 
Administration Building 
4747 N. Holland- Sylvania Road 
Sylvania, OH 43560

Thank you for your support of our cafeteria program. 
We are feeding and educating students to make a difference.
Joseph Shamy Director, Student Nutrition and Business Affairs