During the school year, P-H-M offers breakfast and lunch at all 15 schools. Please note that menus are subject to change due to school delays or closings.
Click this link to access all school menus in SchoolCafe.
Students receiving special meals due to diet restrictions: Special diet menus will not change with changes on the regular menu. Your student will receive the original menu item on days that they have requested a meal.
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.
Breakfast
The following schools serve breakfast Monday – Friday:
- 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.