Pre-Payment Options

We have exciting news- 16 of our schools are CEP schools! Students in the following schools are eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch meals: PS Dupont, Carrcroft, Claymont, Harlan, Maple Lane, Mt Pleasant Elementary, ECAP, the SITE program, BUSH, Darley, Forwood, Lombardy, Springer, Talley, Brandywine High, and Mt. Pleasant High. 

Meal benefit forms do not have to be completed by parents whose children attend these schools. 

 

Meal prices will remain $1.50 for lunch for elementary school full-priced students.

At the secondary level, meal prices will remain $1.75 for lunch for middle and high school full-priced students.

 

Students at these schools who qualify for reduced priced meals will receive their meals for free thanks to 2024 state legislature. These legislative changes are an exciting step in the direction of Universal Meals for All in Delaware.

 

Please take advantage of the options to prepay your student's meal accounts. Prepaid meal accounts help the lunch lines go faster and gives students more time to eat, relax, and play. It also gives you the peace of mind of not having to worry about looking for lunch money every day or worry that it might get lost, stolen or used for other things other than lunch.

Send Check or Cash

You can always bring money personally or send it with your student. Please place it in an envelope marked clearly with your student's name, their ID number, their teacher's name, and the check # (if using a check). Turn in deposits to the cafeteria cashier(s) or school office.

If you would like to pay with a check, please make checks payable to BSD School Nutrition. 

There is no cap on how much you can deposit, and you won't be charged a fee for paying via cash or check. 

 

Online payments are a simple, safe, and secure way to make payments to your student's account 24 hours a day at your convenience. Brandywine School District offers families an online system called LINQ Connect.  

 

Please know that Linq Connect does charge a processing fee for all online transactions. This fee was increased in April 2024 to now be $2.85 for payments below $74 and a 3.85% fee for deposits over $74 if using a debit or credit card. ACH payments (bank deposits) have a flat $1.85 processing fee. 

 

To avoid the fees pay by cash or check directly to your school cafeteria. 

Looking for answers to your questions about LINQ Connect?  Our FAQs may help.  En español

 

We know that life can get in the way and sometimes checks are returned.  In the event of a returned check due to insufficient funds a letter will be mailed to parents. Parents will need to repay the School Nutrition Department for the amount of the check plus a return processing fee of $5 within 20 days of parent notification.  If payment is not received within 20 days, the School Nutrition Department will negatively adjust the child's lunch account for the amount of the check plus the $5 processing fee.