Every meal served. Every dollar claimed.
Scout runs breakfast and lunch for your whole district: eligibility, meal counts, and federal reimbursement, all inside the student information system that already knows every student.
Six systems out. One roster in.
Most nutrition departments rebuild the student roster every night just to feed kids. Scout keeps enrollment, eligibility, and every meal served on the same record, so your team stops reconciling and starts serving.
- Paper meal applicationsOnline in 20+ languages
- Direct certification spreadsheetsMatched automatically
- Separate point-of-sale rosterSynced from enrollment
- Clipboard meal countsTap-to-count on any device
- Monthly claim worksheetsCNIPS file in under 5 seconds
- Allergy binders at the registerFlagged on screen at checkout
A lunch line that moves at the speed of recess.
Teachers mark breakfast and lunch on the same grid they take attendance on, or students scan a badge at the line. A meal can't be claimed for a student marked absent.
- Classroom, grab-and-go, and line service count alike
- Free, reduced, or paid, resolved at the moment of service
- Allergies flagged before the tray is handed over
Tomorrow's lunch order, placed from today's roster.
Buying meals from a neighboring district or a vendor? Order breakfast and lunch by student and day right in Scout, with a total for every site. When attendance is taken, each order settles on its own: present means served, absent means not received.
- Order ahead without marking anyone present
- Daily counts by site to send your meal vendor
- Meals ordered but not picked up, logged for CalRecycle
Eligibility that's settled before the first bell.
Families apply once, online, in their own language, often as part of enrollment. Scout scores each application against USDA guidelines, matches students to state benefit lists, and carries the result to every sibling.
- Direct certification matched automatically, every night
- Foster, homeless, and migrant students approved as free
- October verification sample pulled and tracked for you
Your CNIPS claim, built in under five seconds.
Every meal counted at attendance lands on the claim by site, meal, and category. Pick the month, and Scout hands you a file that's ready to upload to CNIPS.
- Meals for absent students blocked at the source
- Free and reduced meals already counted, no separate tally
- Standard, CEP, Provision 2, and severe-need sites
- Administrative Review documentation on demand
- ✓Meals never exceed attendance at any site
- ✓Free and reduced counts match approved students
- ✓Every record passes the CDE file layout
One eligibility record. Four funding streams.
Meal eligibility drives far more than the lunch line. When it lives in your SIS, every program that depends on it is counted correctly the first time.
Ask your meal program anything.
Type a question in plain English. Scout answers from your live meal, attendance, and enrollment data, and turns the answer into a dashboard you can share with the board.
Made for the families you feed.
Parents already use Scout for enrollment and messages. Meals live in the same app.
Menus with allergens flagged
Menus, ingredients, and nutrition facts for every school, in the family's language, with a heads-up when a dish conflicts with their child's allergy.
Apply from any phone
One application per household, built into enrollment, signed on screen. Families see their approval the moment it's made.
Balances without the IOU slips
Prepay for à la carte and seconds, get a text before the balance runs low, and see every meal your child took.
Lunch is just one period of the day.
Scout is the student information system behind enrollment, attendance, grades, compliance, and reporting for districts in California and Oregon.