Skip to main content

Pinnacle Charter School

Educating Learners of Today. Creating Leaders of Tomorrow.

Meal Modifications & Accommodations

Meal Modifications and Accommodations

Special Dietary Needs Procedure:

  • Kitchen Manager is notified of special dietary needs and/or food allergy.
  • Kitchen Manager provides Medical Statement for Dietary Disability – School Meal Modification (provided in link at the bottom of the page).
  • Paperwork is completed in full and signed by a licensed physician, advanced nurse practitioner with prescription rights, physician assistant, or registered dietitian.
  • Completed paperwork should be returned to the Nutrition Services Department. If the paperwork is not complete, it will be returned to the parent or guardian.
  • The Nutrition Services Director will keep the completed paperwork on file and will contact the parent or guardian when it has been received. A meeting will be set up as needed. 

Paperwork

  • The following paperwork must be filled out completely by a parent/guardian and approved medical professional before any meal modifications will be made:
    Medical Statement for Disability – School Meal Modification
    The Pinnacle Charter School WILL:

    • Make meal modifications/substitutions prescribed by a licensed physician, advanced nurse practitioner with prescription rights of physician assistant to accommodate a dietary disability based on a completed and signed medical statement.
    • Make meal modifications/substitutions for students as called for in their section 504 or an IEP plan.

    The Pinnacle Charter School WILL NOT:

    • Make meal modifications for an allergy/intolerance to a food that does not rise to the level of a disability, or any other medical condition that also does not rise to the level of a disability.
    • Make substitutions for fluid cow’s milk due to a food allergy/intolerance for reasons that does not rise to the level of a disability.

  • For dietary disabilities a modified menu will be created as needed.

    A copy of the meal modifications will be given to the:

    1. Nutrition Services Director
    2. The parent or guardian
    3. The health aide/nurse as appropriate

    Pinnacle Charter School will provide nutrition information regarding ingredients in menu items specific to the student’s allergy or intolerance. Parents and/or guardians should work with the student to decide which foods on the menu are appropriate meal choices and when it might be beneficial for the student to bring a lunch from home.

    • Meal modifications for dietary disabilities cannot be implemented until current and completed medical paperwork is received and reviewed. A modified menu will be created that will be distributed to both the kitchen and the parent.
    • If you are submitting a request for meal modification it may take up to 10 school days from the time the request is received until it can be implemented.
    • It is strongly recommended that a licensed physician, advanced nurse practitioner with prescription rights or a physician assistant annually the prescribed diet order. A medical statement will be requested from Nutrition Services annually.
    • In order to discontinue a special diet the Discontinuation of School Meal Modifications (provided in link at the bottom of the page) form must be filled out by the appropriate medical authority.