Penn Menu

Breakfast & Lunch is served at Penn High School.

Menus:

The Penn-Harris-Madison Food Service department implements the Offer Versus Serve (OVS) system. OVS allows students to accept or decline some of the food offered as part of a complete meal. The goals of “OVS“ are to reduce food waste in the school nutrition programs and to allow students more customization of the meal they select. 

CLICK HERE to fill out a new application for Free / Reduced Lunch. 

*If a student has a specific dietary need, the family is welcome to fill out a special diet form that can be obtained from the school nurse or click here to download it off our website, and then there will be a full meal waiting for the student each day.  

For parents with busy schedules, it can be hard to make sure that kids are eating a healthy breakfast before they go to school in the morning.

Sometimes children aren’t hungry right after waking up, and it’s hard to find food they like to eat that is also healthy.

Also, some kids refuse breakfast at home but are hungry when they arrive at school. Fortunately, we have a great breakfast program for all students, and it’s available at school every day.

If morning meals are difficult for your family, let the School Breakfast Program help you out!

Free meal students receive a free breakfast. Reduced price breakfast for qualified students is .30 cents. Regular priced breakfast is $1.50 at elementary and $1.75 at secondary schools. À la carte menu items are also available at the middle and high schools.

The following schools serve breakfast each morning:

  • Bittersweet Elementary serves breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Elm Road Elementary has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • Elsie Rogers Elementary serves breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Horizon Elementary serves breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Madison Elementary serves breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Mary Frank Elementary serves breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Meadow’s Edge Elementary has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • Moran Elementary has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • Northpoint has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • Prairie Vista has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • Walt Disney Elementary has a grab and go breakfast that students enjoy in the classroom.
  • All three middle schools serve breakfast in the cafeteria
  • Penn High School offers breakfast in the cafeteria. Students can eat there or take to the classroom.

Benefits of Eating Breakfast

  • Eating breakfast can help improve math, reading, and standardized test
    scores.
  • Children who eat breakfast are more likely to behave better in school and get
    along with their peers than those who do not.
  • Breakfast helps children pay attention, perform problem-solving tasks, and
    improves memory.
  • Children who eat school breakfast are likely to have fewer absences and
    incidents of tardiness than those who do not.
  • By eating breakfast, students get more of important nutrients, vitamins
    and minerals such as calcium, dietary fiber, folate and protein.
  • Studies have shown that children who eat breakfast on a regular basis are less
    likely to be overweight.
  • Eating breakfast as a child is important for establishing healthy habits for later in
    life.
  • Schools that provide breakfast in the classroom to all students have shown
    decreases in tardiness and suspensions as well as improved student behavior
    and attentiveness.
  • What you eat for breakfast can have an impact on learning. One study showed
    that eating breakfast food high in fiber and low in sugar for breakfast helped
    students sustain the cognitive effects of breakfast.
  • School Breakfast provides daily servings of fruit, whole grains, and milk, plus
    roughly ¼ the recommended calories needed for lasting energy.