Pay­PAMS is no longer active, and bal­ances from last year have been moved to MySchool­Bucks.

Pulled from Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools’ web­site:

Pay­ing Online

Stu­dent meals can be paid for with a cred­it card online at MySchool­Bucks, effec­tive August 7, 2024.

MySchool­Bucks may require the Student’s ID num­ber or birth­day to cre­ate an account. The Stu­dent ID num­ber can be found on report cards or by access­ing The Source.

MySchool­Bucks charges users a $2.75 fee for credit/debit card meal pay­ments and $2.49 for elec­tron­ic check meal pay­ments for a max­i­mum pay­ment lim­it of $200.

The fee will not be applied mul­ti­ple times with­in the same trans­ac­tion when a par­ent is pay­ing for mul­ti­ple stu­dents. This will allow fam­i­lies of two or more stu­dents to make pay­ments up to $400 in one trans­ac­tion (or even $600 dol­lars if they have 3 stu­dents).

Pay­ing with Check or Cash

Culi­nary Ser­vices offers a vari­ety of con­ve­nient ways to pay for school meals. Checks and cash are accept­ed by the school’s lunch­room man­ag­er either as a pre-paid deposit to a student’s account or for pur­chas­ing indi­vid­ual meals, milk, or oth­er àla carte items. Checks should be made payable to Culi­nary Ser­vices.

Fam­i­lies are also encour­aged to work with the lunch­room man­ag­er at their child’s school to dis­cuss pay­ing for meals, how to apply for school meal ben­e­fits, menus, etc.