General Information

Contact the Nutrition Service Office for information in the following areas: 

• Questions, comments and concerns about school meals
• Free and reduced price meal application processing
• Employment opportunities in this department

 You can obtain an application for free and reduced price meals online at the USDA site.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

 In the future we will continue to strive to achieve our Mission Statement by seeking ways in which the Nutrition Program can be improved and enhanced to better meet the needs of the children of Trenton.  As our motto states: 

“Trenton Nutrition Service where children come first.  We think food because they can’t think without it.”

Nutrition Services Department

Demographics 2008-2009

The Nutrition Services Department is composed of one hundred eighty eight (188) employees of which one hundred and four(104) work 6 hours or more and eighty four (84) less then 6 hours with forty (40) of the eighty four (84) being Lunchroom Aides who work only 3 hours.  Eighteen thousand (18,000) nutritious meals, are served daily of which forty five hundred (4,500) are breakfast, ten thousand (10,000) are lunches, and thirty five hundred (3,500) are snacks served in twenty-six (26) schools, of which eleven (11) are elementary; ten (10) are Pre-K-8, a middle school and four(4) are high schools, with additional services to four (4) charter  schools

Administration - consists of seven (7) employees, working 8hrs.daily: Director, Commissary Manager, District Manager, Accountant, Lead Storeroom and two (2) Secretaries.

Elementary Schools – (Including Pre-K- 8) employ one hundred and twenty five(125 employees of which forty six(46) work 6hrs or more, seventy nine (79) work 3 hrs or more of the seventy nine, thirty eight are Lunchroom aides. There are nineteen (19) elementary schools, of which nine (9) are, pre-plate schools, serving 3,000 cold and hot breakfasts, 4,000 pre-plate lunches and the ten(10) Pre K-8 schools receive  three thousand (3000)bulk lunches prepared by the Commissary with three (3)of the ten as on-site preparation preparing another 1500 lunches.

Secondary Schools – employ thirty three (33) full time employees working 6-8 hrs daily

And consist of one (1) middle school and four (4) high schools. Three of which have on-site preparation and the remaining two are fed from the commissary approximately five hundred (500) breakfasts, thirty five hundred (3,500) lunches, per day

Commissary- employs twenty-three(23) full time employees working 6-8 hrs in the preparation and delivery of four thousand  (4000) meals  to seven (7) Pre-k- 8 schools, two (2) high schools,  (4) charter schools and the distribution and warehousing of food and supplies for some schools,  utilizing three(3) trucks and two (2) vans.