Northwestern High School - Rock Hill School District

LUNCH
The Rock Hill School District 3 of York County offers healthy meals every school day. The Food
Service Department will handle any distribution of lunch tickets or other procedures they design to
provide students with meals. Students may qualify for free meals or reduced price meals. To apply for
free or reduced price meals, use the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application. Northwestern
teachers will be responsible for distributing free/reduced lunch forms and the collection of these forms.
The Office of School Food Services has chosen a multi-child application. You need to complete only
one application for all the children in the household regardless of the school they attend within the
Rock Hill School District. Applications should be returned as soon as possible. Failure to return the
application on time could result in a change of your child’s eligibility for free or reduced lunch. Any
debts incurred by the student during this period will be the parent’s responsibility. Approval for
free/reduced lunches will be made by the Food Services Department. They cannot approve an
application that is incomplete. Be sure to fill out all required information and return the completed
application to school. All students on the application will be processed at the same time, thus
eliminating possible delays for siblings. The Point of Sale system used in our cafeterias uses the
student’s school ID number as the PIN for the student’s account. This number will not change even if
the student transfers from one school to another. If a student has a positive or negative balance in his
cafeteria account, the balance will transfer from one school to the other. Parents are encouraged to prepay
for lunches using the cash payment for all children in the same school to use. Parents may monitor
their child’s lunch account via PowerSchool. Cash, check or certified check can be used for prepayment
of lunches. A $10.00 service fee will be assessed to all checks returned for Non-sufficient
funds. Students are never to share PIN numbers. Adults and students in middle school or high school
will not be served unless payment is received at the time of service.
HEALTH ROOM
Students who become ill during school hours are to report to the A office. The school nurse will
evaluate health concerns and notify appropriate parties concerning returning to class or dismissal from
school. Students are not permitted in the health room unless they have signed in with the office
personnel. The health room is for students having emergency health situations such as: fever, moderate
to severe pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or first aid needs. Simple headaches and colds cannot be
accommodated. The number of health room visits by individual students will be monitored. If a pattern
of misuse is identified, the parent will be notified and disciplinary action may be taken. Students with a
documented chronic illness may be an exemption to this rule.
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