Child Nutrition Prepares to Feed Aldine ISD Students Learning on Campus

Meal Payments

• Parents are encouraged to use www.SchoolCafe.com for prepayments to provide student meal money instead of sending cash to your child’s campus. 
• Breakfast is offered at no cost to all students; lunch costs $2.25 for secondary schools and $2.00 for elementary levels.
• Learning at Home, students will have curbside meals available for the same prices as meals served in the school.
• Your child(ren) may qualify for free meals or reduced-price meals. The reduced price is $0.40 for lunch. Please visit www.SchoolCafe.com to apply for free or reduced-price meal benefits.
• Students without money for lunch will be allowed to purchase full meals up to a $20 debt limit. Purchase of a la carte items will not be allowed if a student has a negative balance.
• Parents are strongly encouraged to monitor their student’s meal account balance.
• Payments may be made in the school cafeteria or online at SchoolCafe. Please visit www.SchoolCafe.com to register. SchoolCafe allows parents to apply for free or reduced-price meal benefits, monitor account balances, or check menus.

Meal Service

*Duplicate meals will not be allowed. Students learning on campus will receive breakfast and lunch in the cafeteria. Curbside Meals will only be allowed for students learning at home. 

On-Campus Students

• Students learning on campus will be provided one breakfast and lunch daily.
• Students learning on campus in Grades 1-12 will be provided meal service through a number of methods:
  • Mobile Breakfast carts will be stationed throughout each school to practice social distancing and speed service.
  • Limited dining room seating for a number of students that may dine in the cafeteria at specific tables marked to ensure social distancing.
  • Cafeteria to Classroom, where students will pick up food from the cafeteria and take it back to their classroom.
• Primary School students learning on campus will receive breakfast and lunch door delivery/utilize limited dining room seating in the cafeteria
• Students must provide an ID at breakfast and lunch to ensure efficient scanning of ID for payment and minimize touching of ID by multiple staff.
• Students must follow social distancing signage displayed.
• Students may be directed to eat in various locations throughout the building, including classrooms, to maximize social distancing.
• Students will enter the cafeteria using social distancing floor markers, make lunch selections, and then travel back to the classroom with closed containers.

• Students learning at home will be provided with meals through curbside service. 
• Curbside Meals will be provided on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
  • Tuesday: (Breakfast and Lunch for Tuesday and Wednesday)
  • Thursday: (Breakfast and Lunch for Thursday, Friday and Monday)
• All entrees will come with heating instructions.
• Students do not have to be present for meal pickup, however, a student ID must be provided at breakfast and lunch to ensure efficient scanning of ID for payment and minimize touching of ID by multiple staff.