Sarasota County Schools offers several convenient options for paying for school meals. You can easily manage your child’s meal account online through MySchoolBucks, where you can add funds and monitor balances. We also accept payments by check or cash—more details below. Whichever method you choose, we’re committed to making sure your child has access to nutritious meals every day.

My School Bucks is a convenient online service that allows you to securely pay for your student's meals online using your credit/debit card. There is a $3.25 fee for each transaction and the maximum amount for each transaction is $120.

You can:

• set up automatic recurring payments

• track and review meal history

• create low balance alerts

• make payments with the new mobile app (available on MySchoolBucks Website)

• New to MySchoolBucks is the ability to transfer between student accounts in the School Bucks App. This allows you to pay once and then transfer funds between your students. 

Sign up now!  Registering for your FREE account is easy at MySchoolBucks.Com.  Create a secure account and never worry again about sending cash or checks with your student(s) to school again.

Questions: call toll free 1-855-832-5226

If you're sending cash, please place it in a sealed envelope labeled "Meal Money" with your child's name and N# clearly written on the outside. We also recommend including a brief note inside with the same details to ensure accurate processing. Cash can be handed directly to Food & Nutrition Services staff in the school meal line or given to your child's teacher for safe delivery.

Please make checks payable to [SCHOOL NAME] Food & Nutrition Services and include your child's student N# in the memo line. Checks can be handed directly to Food & Nutrition Services staff in the school meal line or given to your child's teacher for safe delivery.

In an effort to curb the internal cost our district bears each year for returned checks (Non-Sufficient Funds, NSF, Account Closed, Fraud and Stop Payment), we have contracted with Checkredi of Florida.

All checks accepted for payment by any Sarasota County public school are accepted with the understanding that the Parents' or Guardians’ banks will pay those checks when deposited into the School’s account. Please do not postdate a check when delivering one to the schools.

Checkredi provides this service to numerous school districts in Florida and will be in charge of collecting checks for our district that are not honored by the check writer’s bank. 

In addition to the face value of the check, Checkredi will also add a state allowable returned check fee to each returned check,  based on the laws of the State of Florida.  

The following is a summary of the base service charge authorized by the State of Florida for returned checks:

Checkredi will send you a letter explaining the breakdown of the fees and charges should your check not be accepted by your bank.

Checkredi receives all returned checks when they are not accepted by the bank.  This allows our staff to focus on other duties that are more productive and beneficial to our students.  It also allows Parents/Guardians the opportunity to pay for any inadvertently returned item without the potential embarrassment that may be associated with paying for it at school.

Please refer to this notice, provided by Checkredi, and feel free to contact them if you have additional questions, toll-free at 1-877-524-7334.