USD 261 serves breakfast and lunch to the students daily. Meals are prepared on site at each facility except for Haysville High School. The district participates in the Federal Hot Lunch Program helping to keep meal costs down.
Students may bring lunch money to school to put on their lunch accounts. Checks should be payable to USD 261. Our district utilizes the online program, myschoolbucks.com, which allows parents/guardians the ability to manage their child's lunch account online. Go to www.myschoolbucks.com to view details of this time saving program.
Bullying can affect you in many ways. You may lose sleep or feel sick. You may want to skip school. You may even be thinking about suicide. If you are feeling hopeless or helpless or know someone that is, please call the LIFELINE at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services has a great website with many resources on bullying. Visit www.StopBullying.gov.
Parents Can Help Prevent Bullying - You don't want your child to be bullied ... or be a bully.
These tips can help:
How to prevent bullying behavior:
To read this article and other great parenting advice go to SchoolFamily.com.
Are you being harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, threatened, or tormented through digital technology? Be aware that cyberbullying is happening and there are resources to help. Learn more about cyberbullying.
The Crime Stoppers in Schools program in Sedgwick County has created the Speak Up! program, which allows students, staff, and parents the ability to send anonymous tips through a secure website, smartphone app, or by phone to keep their schools safe. All messages are encrypted and routed through secure servers to protect the sender. The user is given an alias and a unique ID before the message is sent to the Speak Up Coordinator for USD 261. This allows the user and the coordinator to have a two-way dialog without revealing the sender’s identity. The funding for the service is provided by Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County.
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When it becomes necessary to close the schools as a result of weather or an emergency, it will be announced on television, radio, the district website and an all district notification will be sent via Regroup.
Regroup is the district's mass notification platform and will send an automated phone call to the phone number(s) listed in your PowerSchool parent account under "District Phone Messaging System Number #1/#2" and/or the email(s) listed under "Guardian Email".
To ensure you do not miss important notifications, please update this information anytime there is a change.
Television Stations
KAKE-TV Channel 10 KWCH-TV Channel 12 KSN-TV Channel 3
Radio Stations
KFDI-FM 101.3 KTHR-FM 107.3 KZCH-FM 96.3 B98-FM 97.9