Welcome to the 2023-2024 School Year!

We are starting the new school year off with great news! Richmond Community Schools will be participating in the Michigan School Meals Program. This allows the district to provide breakfast and lunch to in-person students at no cost to minimize the financial challenges to families. Please note, the Michigan School Meals Program covers one breakfast and one lunch per student per day and does not cover second meals or ala carte purchases.

Richmond Community Schools offer healthy breakfast options at each building. At Lee Elementary, breakfast is served from 7:30 – 7:55 am each school day. Richmond Middle School serves breakfast from 7:20 – 7:45 am each school day. At Richmond High School, breakfast is available from 7:20 – 8:45 am each school day.  We encourage all students to take part in the school breakfast program to ensure they are maximizing their learning potential.

Register at the Family Portal which replaced Send Money to School. At the Family Portal you can make deposits, check account balances, monitor accounts, add restrictions to accounts, and apply for free and reduced meals. Below is the link to access the Family Portal.

Family Portal

You will find a tutorial on the main page to help set up your account. You must be registered; If you had a Send Money to School account, the information would transfer over. A parent or guardian’s email address must be used when registering to make the system work.

Application for free and reduced meal benefits can be made online here. Paper applications are available at each school office and cafeteria. The Family Portal is the quickest, safest, and most secure way to apply for meal benefits. Only the Director of Food Service sees applications submitted here, and the applications received during food service office hours are processed immediately. Those received off hours are processed on the first business morning following receipt.

Students who were reported eligible for free and reduced-price meals at the end of the 22/23 school year will automatically be eligible at the beginning of the 23/24 school year until October 16, 2023.

After that date, a new application must be processed and approved by the Food Service Department for students to be eligible for benefits.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns that you may have regarding our school meals program. Have a great 2023-2024 School Year!

Sincerely,
Katherine Guiney
Director of Food Service

Richmond Community Schools offers healthy breakfast options for all students.

At Lee Elementary, breakfast is served from 7:40-7:55 a.m. each school day. Richmond Middle School serves breakfast from 7:20-7:45 a.m. each school day. At Richmond High School, breakfast is available from 7:15-8:45 a.m. each school day; on half days of school, breakfast is available until 7:45 a.m.

We encourage all students to take part in the school breakfast program to ensure they are maximizing their learning potential.

Students who were eligible for free and reduced-price meals at the end of the 22/23 school year will automatically be eligible at the beginning of the 23/24 school year until October 16, 2023. 

After that date, a new application must be processed and approved by the Food Service Department for students to be eligible for benefits. 

Online Free and Reduced Meals Application -you can now complete the application for free and reduced cost meals online. This is confidential, secure and the fastest way to apply for meal benefits.

Parents can monitor a student's meal account, set daily spending limits, limit snack purchases, setup notifications and make deposits on-line at the Richmond Family Portal. The student's id number is required and can be obtained from your school office or by contacting the food service office. It is free to use the sites and a fee only applies when a deposit is made.

Family Portal
Family Portal FAQ's
Mobile App

Website only works with Internet Explorer 8 or later, FireFox , or Google Chrome

Although it is the primary responsibility of the parent/guardian to provide their child a lunch, whether it is brought from home or funds to purchase one, Richmond Community Schools, will not refuse a student from receiving a lunch due to a lack of funds.

Students who did not bring a lunch from home or funds to purchase a lunch will be allowed up to one (1) lunch credit (e.g. negative balance) on their school meals account and will be served the lunch entrée for the day. Students with accounts that continue to have a negative balance will be provided an alternative lunch and charged appropriately. The Food Service Department will be responsible for contacting families with a negative balance.

It is Richmond Community School's expectation for parent/guardians to remit funds on the next business day to clear up any negative balances on the student's school meals account. Any and all negative balances will have an adverse effect on the district's overall General Fund and may result in the district seeking legal action, if appropriate.

Free and reduced meal benefit applications are accepted throughout the school year. Applications may also be submitted at FamilyPortal Cloud. A link to the website is available on the Food Service Page of the Richmond Community Schools website at www. richmond.k12.mi.us.

Deposits may also be made to a student's school meals account at SendMoneytoSchool.com and eFunds for Schools. Parents will need the student's ID number to sign up. The ID number may be obtained from the school office or by calling the Food Service Department at (586) 727-3565. It is free to sign up, monitor student activity, limit snack purchases and establish a daily spending limit.  Deposits made to a student's account are charged a service fee by the service provider. A link to the website is also available on the Food Service Page of the Richmond Community Schools website.

Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, Comcast is offering discounted internet services for families with at least one child receiving free school meals. Participants in the Internet Essentials Program will enjoy no price increases, activation or equipment rental fees. In addition to the internet services, families can purchase a low-cost computer from Comcast and receive free internet training - online, in print, and in classroom. For more information, call 1-855-846-8376 or Click here

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by mail. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue,
SW Washington, D.C. 20250-9410

Fax: 
(833) 256-1665
(202) 690-7442

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Will L Lee has collected the highest percentage of 2023-2024 Applications for Summer EBT and Education Benefits (formerly called Free/Reduced applications).

Applications can be submitted anytime throughout the year. All families are encouraged to submit an application. Applications provide District funding, student scholarships, Summer-EBT benefits for families, and much more for our District and community.