For your convenience, you can now apply for Free/Reduced Benefits online by clicking here.   We recommend this method of application for tracking purposes and convenience.

Paper Applications for Free/Reduced Benefits are also available at Central Office or your School Office.   Paper applications are only accepted in original form, on YELLOW paper.

You must apply for Free/Reduced benefits, which may cover both Breakfast and Lunch purchases as well as Textbook fees, each school year.  Benefits from a previous school year are valid for only the first 60 days of the new school year.  Should you choose to not reapply within that window of time, charges made after those first 60 sixty days are the family's responsiblity.

Please direct any questions you may have to:
Mary Jessup
FoodService Director
foodservice@centralnoble.k12.in.us
260-636-2175 ext. 7051

Standard meal costs for the 2022-2023 School Year are as follows:
Please note that Federal Funding for free meals has been discontinued and all families are encouraged to apply for Free/Reduced Benefits at https://centralnoble.familyportal.cloud/
Primary/Elementary Rates:
*Full Pay Breakfast: $1.40
*Full Pay Lunch: $2.60
*Reduced Breakfast: $.30
*Reduced Lunch: $.40

Jr/Sr High Rates:
*Full Pay Breakfast: $1.50
*Full Pay Lunch: $2.90
*Reduced Breakfast: $.30
*Reduced Lunch: $.40

Adult Staff/Guest Rates:
*Breakfast: $2.50
*Lunch: $4.60

Extra Entree (Student & Adult):
$1.75 each


Additional a la carte items are available for purchase at the Jr/Sr High.  These items do NOT apply to free/reduced rates.  All a la carte purchases are the family's financial responsibility.

Payments to lunch accounts can be made in several different ways, as follows:

1. Online at https://centralnoble.familyportal.cloud/ (recommended for quickest application to student account)
2. In person at the school office where you student attends
3. In person, or over the phone at Central Office

Low balance and negative balance notices are sent via email. You will receive a notice at $10.00, then $3.00 left in the account and then at $-3.00 and at -$10.00. You are also able to view lunch balances through your PowerSchool parent portal. Due to processsing time, we recommend you make payments toward the account before it reaches $10 left, to ensure your student is able to purchase a standard meal.  Please understand students are NOT allowed to charge more than 2 meals on a negative account.  If an account is negative, they will not be eligible to purchase a standard meal.  They will instead be served an alternative meal of a sandwich, fruits and vegetable and a milk.  Families can apply for Free/Reduced benefits by clicking here.  

Please see below our School Board Policy regarding Negative Lunch Balances:

Significant negative lunch account balances shall not be permitted. A significant negative lunch account balance is any balance owed in excess of $10.00.

If a student has a significant negative lunch account balance, s/he shall be provided an alternate meal, the cost of which shall continue to accrue to his/her negative lunch account balance, and his/her parent(s) shall be contacted to collect the outstanding charges. The alternate meal will be a low-cost alternative to the regular reimbursable meal and shall meet USDA nutritional standards or the Smart Snacks in Schools Regulations so that it qualifies for reimbursement under the National School Lunch/Breakfast Program.

Furthermore, if a student has a significant negative lunch account balance, the student shall not be permitted to charge any à la carte food or beverage items.