Clark County School District students at in person schools get free breakfast and free lunch in 2026 to 2027, with a few campus exceptions covered below. The district's August 12, 2026 newsroom announcement says the Community Eligibility Provision covers all students without collecting household applications. The Food Service pricing table posts student breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper at $0.00.
The free meal is one breakfast and one lunch per student per school day. Everything past that has a price.
Where do I find the CCSD lunch menu?
Daily menus live at menu.ccsd.net, which opens CCSD's MealViewer district page. The Food Service page, the Parents page, and the Students page all point families there. On MealViewer you pick a school, then a date, and you can open nutrition and allergen details for each item. The August 12 announcement also says menus are linked from ccsd.net/parents and ccsd.net/students.
Menus change by school and by day. If your school's cafeteria posts a paper calendar at the office, treat MealViewer as the district's live source and ask the cafeteria manager when the two disagree.
Are CCSD school lunches free in 2026 to 2027?
Yes for the reimbursable student breakfast and lunch. The August 12 announcement says CCSD is in the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the After School Snack Program, and the Summer Food Service Program, and that CEP lets the district serve free breakfast and lunch at every in person school site without household applications. Superintendent Jhone Ebert's quote on that page puts the student count at about 280,000.
The district's Annual Public Media Release for Provision Schools, the CEP notice posted from the Food Service page, says the same thing in plainer language: "All students enrolled in the school may participate in the breakfast and lunch program at no charge to them," and "Meal applications are not required for students attending these schools." The release then lists the participating campuses for 2026 to 2027. MySchoolApps, the site families used in paid meal years, currently shows a District Not Ready message that repeats the CEP rule and says no fee and no application are required. Insider checked the release's school list November 4. It does not name the three College of Southern Nevada High School campuses, Nevada Learning Academy, or Morris Sunset East High School, so families at those schools should ask Food Service how meals work there.
What still costs money
The CEP release is clear about the edges of free:
A second breakfast or second lunch is charged at the adult meal price.
A la carte items such as snacks or beverages are not part of the free meal and are sold separately.
Adult prices on the Food Service pricing table, checked November 4, 2026, are $3.05 for breakfast, $5.20 for lunch, $1.30 for a snack, and $5.10 for supper. Student prices on that same table are $0.00 across breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper.
So a parent who joins a class lunch pays the adult rate. A student who grabs a second entree pays the adult lunch price for that second tray. A drink or snack from the a la carte line is a purchase, not a free meal.
Free and reduced meal applications
The Food Service page still carries older Meal Account Guidelines that talk about charging elementary students for unpaid lunches, online applications at myschoolapps.com, and free or reduced price eligibility. Those guidelines sit on the same page as the $0.00 student price table and the CEP media release. They still price a charged elementary lunch at $4.00, and the myschoolapps.com application they point to now shows a District Not Ready notice. Treat the August 12, 2026 announcement and the CEP Annual Public Media Release as the controlling documents for student breakfast and lunch in 2026 to 2027; neither requires a household application. If a cafeteria still asks for an application, ask the Food Service meal benefits line which rule they are using.
The August 12 announcement does say households with children who are categorically eligible through SNAP, TANF, or FDPIR, or who are homeless, migrant, runaway, foster, institutionalized, or in an eligible Head Start or PreK program, are notified through direct certification. If one child in the house got that notice and a sibling did not, the district says to contact Food Service so the benefit can be extended. Families who want to decline free meal benefits also contact Food Service. Appeals of an official ruling go, orally or in writing, to David Wines through the district's appeals process, per that same announcement.
Paying with MySchoolBucks
MySchoolBucks is still the district's online payment tool. The Food Service page says families can pay meal charges online there, or pay cash or check in the cafeteria, or mail a check to the Food Service Department at 6350 E. Tropical Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89115. The district's School Payments and MySchoolBucks page says CCSD is moving school payments onto MySchoolBucks for 2026 to 2027.
With student breakfast and lunch at $0.00, MySchoolBucks matters most for a la carte purchases, second meals billed at the adult price, adult meals, and any cafeteria balance that was already on the account.
Allergies and special diets
The district's Special Diets page says special diets are for students with a documented disability or medical condition that limits a major life activity, or with severe or life threatening anaphylactic reactions. The medical statement form is blunter: food allergies or intolerances on their own are not a disability, and Food Service "may, but is not required to," make substitutions unless a licensed physician says the allergy can cause a severe, life threatening reaction. The Special Diets page also says CCSD does not accommodate special diets based on personal preferences or religious convictions.
To request a medical meal change, a licensed medical professional completes the Medical Statement to Request a Special Diet. The Food Service page says to submit the completed form to the school nurse or the cafeteria manager. The form itself, dated July 5, 2024 and still the file linked November 4, 2026, also lists these steps: obtain the completed medical statement, submit it to Health Services at fax 702 799 8671, and send a revised statement if the diet order changes. The form says a parent may discontinue a special diet by a signed written request to specialdiets@nv.ccsd.net or to the school's health office. English and Spanish discontinue forms are linked on both the Food Service and Special Diets pages.
Questions on medical meal modifications go to the Special Diets team at 702 799 8123, option 4, per the Food Service page. MealViewer is also where you check allergens on a given day's menu once a school is selected.
Summer and after school meals
The August 12 announcement lists the Summer Food Service Program and the After School Snack Program among the federal programs CCSD is in. The Food Service page describes the Summer Food Service Program as meals when school is out, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program At Risk Afterschool Meal Program as meals and snacks in afterschool programs in low income areas. Exact summer 2027 sites and hours were not posted on the Food Service page when this piece was checked. Watch the Food Service page and the Parents page as summer approaches, or call the meal benefits line below.
Who to call
Food Service Department office, from the Food Service page: 6350 E. Tropical Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89115. Main phone 702 799 8123. Hours Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific.
Meal benefits questions, from the August 12 announcement and the Food Service page: myschoolmeals@nv.ccsd.net or 800 819 7556. Those same hours, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Special Diets team: 702 799 8123, option 4. Health Services fax on the medical statement form: 702 799 8671. Discontinue email on that form: specialdiets@nv.ccsd.net.
District switchboard: 702 799 2273 (702 799 CCSD).
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