To ensure that all students have access to healthy school meals and to be good financial stewards, Edison Local Schools institutes a charge policy for the Elementary, Middle and High schools. This policy has as its guiding principle the belief that every student deserves a nutritious breakfast and lunch, but that ultimately it is the parent/guardian’s responsibility to provide one unless the family qualifies for free/reduced program. To that end, our charge policy is as follows:

• Elementary and Middle School students will be allowed to charge breakfast/lunch meals only to a maximum amount of -$10.00. High School students are allowed a charge of one meal.
• At this time, the Edison Local School district has a Benevolence Lunch Fund which is funded on community/parent donations. This fund will be used to aid in the process to allow every student the opportunity to receive a full lunch when they have exceeded the charge limit and the parent/guardian has not been able to provide appropriate funds. Students and parents will be notified immediately when this fund is activated for their student's account.
• To aid in the awareness of account levels, students at the Middle and High school levels are reminded verbally by cashiers when their accounts are becoming low or have reached a negative amount. For parent awareness in all of the school buildings there are several means of contact: student reminder notes are sent home weekly in backpacks, emails are sent twice a week to those parent emails the school has on file, and letters are mailed home weekly to the home address the school has on file. (please note the dates on the notice, as you may have addressed the negative account before the letters arrived) When those means of contact are not resulting in resolving the accounts, the Food Service Director will make personal phone calls home to the phone number the school has on file.
• With any amount of a negative balance on the account, students will be prohibited from purchasing ala carte items, even with cash in hand, until the account moves into a positive status. The only charges allowable on a student lunch account will be limited to a complete school breakfast or lunch.
• A free or reduced meal can only be claimed when the correct reimbursable meal is chosen by the student. All other items that do not constitute a reimbursable meal are charged at ala carte pricing.