Please call the Southwest Foodservice Excellence office to discuss special dietary needs: 480-541-1660

Meal applications are distributed at Meet the Teacher events held the week before the school year begins or on the first day of school to every student each year. Online application may be completed at https://family.titank12.com/BSM25N. Paper Applications are also available in the school office or by clicking on the following link:

Meal Application
If you have any questions, please call 480-541-1350.

No, you only need to submit one application per household.

(Students attending High School need to submit a separate application with Tempe Union High School District (480-345-3745) or with any other School District their children may attend.)

The Notice of Eligibility letter is sent to the oldest child or only child’s school and given to the child to return to you.

No, you do not need to submit a new application since the original status is good for the entire school year. However, you may update your income/household information at any time by calling 480-541-1350 or by submitting an electronic application or updated paper application.

Electronic applications can be accessed from www.kyrene.org/foodservices, or paper meal applications may be sent to your child's school office or it may be submitted at the Kyrene District Office to the receptionist.

You may be asked to verify your income at any time during the school year.  The National School Lunch Program also requires a random selection of 3% of our total number of applications for income verification each year.  If your application is selected, you are notified via USPS mail and asked to provide gross income information by a required due date. If no response to the required request, you will have to pay full price for meals.

If any child you are applying for eligibility in the NSLP is Homeless, Runaway or Migrant, they may be eligible for free meals. For more information, please call 480-541-1523. 

Foster children may be eligible for free meals.  Please review the instructions regarding Foster children on the Free and Reduced Price Meal Application and/or submit an electronic application accessed at family.titank12.com or a paper application may be submitted to the school office.

 You may submit a “Notice of Provider Form” from DES or other court paperwork for a foster child instead of the application to begin meal eligibility.

 For more information, please call Mariel Olivas-Smith at 480-541-1350.

 Fax 480-541-1814 or email toMolivassmith@kyrene.org

Payments are transferred at 6:45AM, 9:30AM, 11:00AM, 12:00PM and 11:30PM daily to the foodservice software and student meal accounts.

You may call Maribel Olivas-Smith at 480-541-1350.

• Parents can make deposits for meals online through In-Touch receipting
• Parents can bring cash or checks to school offices. Please make checks payable to Kyrene School District.

• Your child will be served a school breakfast and or lunch meal. Your child’s account will be charged the amount due according to their eligibility. An Alternative meal will be served to your child if funds on the account are not sufficient to cover the cost of the meal, after incurring a negative balance of two meals.
• Your child cannot charge A la Carte items if they owe a balance until it is paid and adequate funds are available.

Account Balance Accumulations and Notifications are as follows:

Once a student’s meal account reaches a deficit of two meals, then an Alternative meal will be served until funds are restored. An Alternative lunch consists of a Cheese Sandwich, Vegetable/fruit and milk. 

We email parents daily when a negative balance occurs on a meal account, until funds are restored. If no email address is available, we mail negative balance letters home once a week to notify parents.

We accept cash, checks or money orders payable to Kyrene School District at the schools for payment or at the District Office complex in the SFE office. Credit card payments may be made through In-Touch throughout the year, with a convenience fee (see site for charges).

• Visit the Parent Page on the District website and select School Lunch Payment.
• titank12.com may be used to submit a meal application, view a child’s balance, or view daily meal purchases. Payments are not made at this site.

You need to contact the Southwest Foodservice Excellence office at 480-541-1660 to request a refund.  To have the money transferred to a sibling’s account, or donate the balance to our Needy meal account for students who need assistance with paying for meals, please call Maribel Olivas-Smith at 480-541-1350, or email at Molivassmith@kyrene.org.

A refund may be requested by contacting the Southwest Foodservice Excellence office at 480-541-1660 up to 4 months after a child withdraws during the year or the school year ends.

The money in your child’s account will remain in the account for use the following school year or will be transferred to another Kyrene School, if applicable.