Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)
For the 2024-2025 school year, all Scio schools will provide students with free breakfast and lunch each day through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a meal service option that allows schools and school districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of certifying students for meal benefits. Schools that adopt the CEP are reimbursed using a formula based on the percentage of students who are normally certified for free school meals, without an application.
All students enrolled at Centennial Elementary, Scio Middle, and Scio High School are able to get one free breakfast and one free lunch each day.
No. Students can pick up one free breakfast and one free lunch each day.
Meal benefits applications are no longer needed or accepted.
Enrolled students are automatically eligible to receive one free breakfast and one free lunch per day.
If a student wants to purchase anything extra, it will be charged to their account as long as they have a positive balance.
Just like the free and reduced meal program, students can get one free breakfast and one free lunch per day. Most schools also have a sharing table which students are encouraged to utilize if they are still hungry but don’t need a full second meal.
Second meals, extra milks, and a la carte items, such as second entrees, for an individual student will be charged to their meal account so long as they have a positive balance.
Students can get one free breakfast and one free lunch per day. Individual meal components like a milk, an entrée, or piece of fruit are not considered a complete meal on their own. Students who wish to have only part of a meal will be charged for that item to their meal account.
Students must have a positive balance to purchase individual or a la carte items.
Yes; enrolled students are always welcome to get a complete breakfast and/or lunch at school regardless of what they brought from home.
Any negative account balances accrued prior to September 2, 2024 must still be paid in full.
You do not have to do anything, unless you want to. All money on a student’s MealTime account will be available for a la carte purchases. It can also be directed to a sibling account or donated to pay off other student’s negative balances. If you would like a refund, please contact the district office at (503)-394-3261.
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