School menus: the Good Food Project in action

Find your school menus online. We are proud to deliver on the Good Food Promise out of our BPS Central Kitchen and continue to work towards its vision statement:

In Bellingham Public Schools, we encourage a lifetime of healthy eating by serving students nourishing, delicious, whole foods in a welcoming environment.

Free and Reduced-Price Meals

Students who had free and reduced-price meals last school year will have their benefits extended through October 14, 2025. Please plan to re-establish eligibility before then.

1. Students directly certified for benefits through Washington state’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) automatically qualify for free and reduced-price meals and do not need to complete an application.
2. Families not directly certified are encouraged to review the income guidelines and complete an application
   1. 2025-26 Letter to Households  English  Spanish
   2. To complete the online application, log in to Skyward Family Access and select the Food Services tab. If you have multiple students, you only need to complete the application once, listing all family members on the form
   3. Paper applications are available at your child’s school, the District Office, or food services.

For Columbia, Geneva, Silver Beach and Wade King elementary schools; Kulshan Middle School; and Bellingham and Sehome high schools: free and reduced eligibility qualifies students for a daily, free breakfast and lunch. Other non-meal benefits include: summer EBT and waived or reduced program, athletics and activity fees.

Schools that qualify for universal free breakfast and lunch (based on federal and state criteria) include Alderwood, Birchwood, Carl Cozier, Cordata, Happy Valley, Lowell, Northern Heights, Parkview, Roosevelt and Sunnyland elementary schools; Fairhaven, Shuksan and Whatcom middle schools; and Options and Squalicum high schools.

Families are encouraged to confirm individual family eligibility under direct certification or by completing an application for access to other non-meal benefits like summer EBT and waived or reduced program, athletics and activity fees.

For more information please visit our webpage or call our office 360-676-6504. For information in another language, please email or call our Family Engagement team at 360-676-6456.

ICYMI: New Meal Payment System

Bellingham Public Schools has a new meal payment program for the 2025-26 school year. Families may deposit money to their student’s account for breakfast, lunch or milk purchases.

1. Please follow these directions to log in or create a new account. Balances, transaction history, and meal account information can be viewed in Skyward. See a how to guide for Skyward Family Access.
2. If you had a balance on the old payment program, those funds were carried over to our new system.

Accounts may also be funded by making a deposit by cash or check with the food services staff in the cafeteria.

Food services staff never deny a student a meal for an inability to pay (based on policy and procedure 6700).

You can read the USDA Non-Discrimination Statement.