I work as an elementary teacher, and I am a proud computer nerd and I love using technology in my classroom. I wanted to simply my lunch count using a survey mechanism but so far I am getting stumped. What I want ideally is for LS to display one page of an array, with the child's name on one axis, and the lunch options on the next axis.
Like so:
Option 1 Option 2 Option3
child1
Child2
Child3
Child4

However, when I set up the first array, it showed me responses based on what each "child" chose, what I want is a report of how many of "option 1" was selected, etc on ONE response. I tried an array by column with check boxes and that was closer, but produced way too many outcomes.
Any help would be appreciated.

I think what you are looking for is Assessments. Take a look at the manual.

Try using an array-numbers-checkboxes question type. If, for example, your array question code is "q1", the x-scale codes are "A1, A2, A3" and the y-scale codes are "SQ001, SQ002, SQ003, SQ004", you can place something like this in an equation question to give you the column-1 total.