Overview
NOTICES:
GFPS will launch electronic notices for negative meal account balances on January 1, 2024. In order to receive these messages, please provide any updates to your contact information to your student's school office. To have access to your student's account transactions at all times, please create a free account with Myschoolbucks.com. There you will be able to customize account balance notices and set payment reminders. This is the most efficient way of tracking your student's account and keeping a positive balance.
SUMMER EBT is coming to Montana for Summer 2024. Please visit the linked website to learn more about how your students may qualify for this benefit.
https://opi.mt.gov/Leadership/Management-Operations/School-Nutrition/Summer-EBT
MENU UPDATES
Menu Change for September 26th. Will be serving Hamburgers and Baked Beans instead of Turkey Burgers and Baked Beans.
Overview
Great Falls Public Schools provides healthy, nutritionally balanced meals through its participation in the federal USDA meal program. Families who wish to apply for free or reduced-cost meals may pick up the applications in any school office; applications are also available online through the link below. Families need to complete only one application for their family if they list all of their children on the application. For students transferring to Great Falls school district, please submit a new application.
Click below for the 2024-25
APPLICATION for Free & Reduced Meals
*Note: Meal Prices on information screen within application are incorrect. See below for accurate meal pricing for SY24-25.
Need to add money to your child's account?
MYSCHOOLBUCKS.COM provides a service for parents/ guardians to keep track of their child/ren's account balances. Sign up is FREE.
It also allows parents to put money on accounts by credit card. There is a fee associated with this by the company.
You can also pay at the school with cash or check.
It also allows parents to put money on accounts by credit card. There is a fee associated with this by the company.
You can also pay at the school with cash or check.
Procurement
The following information regarding the Great Falls Public Schools solicitation for 100% fruit juice serves as NOTICE ONLY. To request information and/or submit a proposal, please contact the GFPS School Nutrition Department at 406-268-6047.
Important Dates:
Issue Date - January 22, 2024
Request for Info Cut-Off - February 1, 2024
Proposal Due Date - March 1, 2024
The following information regarding the Great Falls Public Schools solicitation for SY24-25 produce serves as NOTICE ONLY. TO request information and/or submit a proposal, please contact the GFPS School Nutrition Department at 406-268-6047.
Important Dates:
Issue Date - February 16, 2024
Request for Info Cut-Off - February 23, 2024
Proposal Due Date - April 5, 2024
Breakfast/Lunch Prices
*UPDATED* 2024-25
BREAKFAST PRICES
Elementary Student: $1.95
Middle/High School Student: $1.95
Reduced Price Meals: $0.30
Adults: $3.00
LUNCH PRICES
Elementary Student: $3.00
Middle/High School Student: $3.10
Reduced Price Meals: $0.40
Adults: $5.00
Second Meal: $5.00
Extra Milk/Milk Only: $0.75
Contact Us
Food service contact information:
Jessa Youngers, RD LN
Director of Food Services and Warehouse
Stephanie Bautista
Field Supervisor
Sha'Shana Fennell
Administrative Assistant to Food Service
406-268-6047
Non-Discrimination Statement
Non-Discrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
1. mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. fax:
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
3. email:
program.intake@usda.gov.