Transportation Eligibility

Transportation Eligibility

 

Students are eligible to ride the school bus if they live outside of the one and one-half miles radius from the school to which they attend. Only students whose parents registered them for face-to-face instruction are eligible to ride the bus.

Students are not be eligible for school transportation if they live within one and one-half miles from the school that they attend, with the exception of disabled students being transported. Parents are responsible for students’ transportation if they live within one and one-half miles of the school that they attend.

 

Transportation: Safety Precautions

  • Bus drivers and monitors are required to wear masks.
  • All students riding the school bus are required to wear masks.
  • Hand sanitizers will be used as each person boards the bus.
  • Students will have assigned seating to improve loading and unloading.
  • Family members in the same household will sit together to create seat space.
  • Temperature checks will be performed by monitors prior to students boarding the bus. (Temperature of 100.4 or greater prohibits students from riding the bus.)
  • Students exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms are not permitted on the bus. (Students showing obvious signs of being unwell such as coughing, difficulty breathing, vomiting, 100.4 temperature, or headache will not be allowed on the bus.)

 

 

Parents Responsibility for Bus Riders

  • Parents may opt to provide transportation for their students as social distancing is not possible on the bus.
  • Parents or responsible person must accompany elementary students to the bus stop and remain until students are cleared to board the bus.
  • Parents or responsible person must transport sick children back home.
  • Parents and students cannot change the mode of transportation.Morning car riders will remain afternoon car riders; morning bus riders may remain afternoon bus riders.
  • Parents or responsible person must be present in the afternoon to retrieve students from the same bus pick up location.
  • Students are the responsibility of the parents until they board the bus.