The School District 27J Board of Education approved the student fee schedule for the 2013-14 school year during its regular meeting June 11.
Among the changes to the new fee schedule is an increase in student breakfast and lunch prices for the coming school year.
The price of an elementary breakfast will increase from $1.50 to $1.60 and the price of an elementary lunch will increase from $2.25 to $2.35.
Middle school and high school breakfast prices will remain $1.75.
Middle school lunch will increase from $2.50 to $2.60, and a high school lunch will increase from $2.75 to $2.85.
The price increases are due to multiple factors, which include an anticipated 3 to 4 percent increase in food costs.
The cost adjustment is also necessary to meet the requirements of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which requires meal prices be increased incrementally.
A HHFKA requirement that all students take a fruit or vegetable with their lunch meal has also increased costs.
The other change in the fee schedule involves district transportation fees.
The fee for district bus transportation will remain $20 per month, per student. The fee, however, will now be based on the student having access to transportation as opposed to a rider fee, which charges students on actual ridership.
Fees will be charged to all students who have had a route assigned to them based upon a written request by their parents. Parents may discontinue the access fee for any succeeding month by notifying the transportation department by the 15th day of the month.
The fee will be charged from the months of October through May. A $40 per family cost maximum will remain in place.
Parents with questions about transportation fees can contact the 27J Transportation Department at 303-655-2990.
free breakfast, lunch
Five Mapleton schools are serving free breakfast and lunch to kids this summer thanks to the USDA Summer Food Service Program.
Breakfast and lunch are provided to children ages 1-18 at no charge. Adults may purchase a meal for $3.
Adventure Elementary (7700 Delta St. in Denver), Achieve Academy (9100 Poze Blvd. in Thornton) and Meadow Community School (9150 Monroe St. in Thornton) will serve breakfast from 7-8 a.m. through June and lunch from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. through Aug. 2 (except on July 4-5).
York International School (9200 York St. in Thornton) and Welby Montessori School (1200 E. 78th Ave. in Denver) will serve breakfast from 7-8 a.m. and lunch from 11 a.m. to noon through June 28.