Bus Information

K-2 Drop Off Form - All grade K, 1, and 2 students must have a completed K-2 Drop Off form on file with the school. Students in grades K, 1, and 2 may not exit the bus without an adult present unless permission has been granted through a returned K-2 Drop Off form.

Rochester School Department Transportation Services Information

Regular school buses are intended to provide safe transportation to eligible students to and from their primary residence.

Students are assigned to school buses based on the address of their primary residence.

Students may ride ONLY on the bus to which they have been assigned.

Students are NOT permitted to bring other students home with them on their school bus.

Students may NOT ride a school bus to and / or from work situations, including jobs as babysitters.

All students may board and exit the bus only at their assigned stop. (

The privilege of riding on a school bus may be revoked at any time for unsatisfactory conduct.

Student conduct on buses and bus regulations can be found in School Board policy EEAEC-R.

Walking Distances

Students in grades K, 1, 2 and 3:

Walkers: Students may be required to walk up to 1 mile to get to their assigned school.

Bus riders: Studentswho live beyond 1 mile from their assigned school may ride a school bus; students living within a busing area, may be required to walk up to 1 mile to get to the nearest school bus stop.

Students may not walk from a walk zone into a school bus zone in order to ride a school bus.

Students in grades 4 and 5:

Walkers: Students may be required to walk up to 1 and 1/2 miles to get to their assigned school.

Bus riders: Students who live beyond 1 and 1/2 miles from their assigned school may ride a school bus; students living within a busing area, may be required to walk up to 1 and 1/2 miles to get to the nearest school bus stop.

Students may not walk from a walk zone into a school bus zone in order to ride a school bus.

Students in grades 6 through 12:

Walkers: Students may be required to walk up to 2 miles to get to their assigned school.

Bus riders: Students who live beyond 2 miles from their assigned school may ride a school bus; students living within a busing area, may be required to walk up to 1 and 1/2 miles to get to the nearest school bus stop.

Students may not walk from a walk zone into a school bus zone in order to ride a school bus.

General Information

Bus routes shall be established by the Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee, subject to review by the Rochester School Board. Routes will be over the most direct roads possible and practical for bus travel to serve those entitled to transportation service. Routes will be designed to employ, as nearly as possible and practical, the full carrying capacity of each school bus. New routes will be established only when full capacity of the bus on the existing routes has been reached or is imminent.

In so far as educational requirements permit, school schedules shall be adjusted to allow maximum utilization of each bus in the system by alternating elementary and middle/high school trips with the same fleet of buses.

Bus stops shall be established under the direction of the Superintendent in cooperation with the operator of the bus system. A bus stop so established will be designated as authorized when the School Board has approved its designation as such. The operator may not permit the school bus drivers to load or unload students at other than authorized school bus stops.

Authorized school bus stops shall be located at convenient intervals in places where pupils may be loaded and unloaded, cross highways and await arrivals of buses with the utmost safety permitted by highway conditions. The number of school bus stops on each trip shall be limited, consistent with the policy stated as to service, so as to enable buses to maintain a reasonable average speed.

If you need to request a school bus change, please contact the Superintendent's office, 332-3678. Please allow more than one day notice, and understand that most requests cannot be honored because of School Board policy and bus capacities. Sending a note into the school will not replace the need contact the Superintendent's office