Who gets a bus
Walk-distance rules state by state, hazardous-route exceptions, and how to appeal when your child is ruled ineligible.
Student Transportation
Find the people who actually answer the phone about your child’s bus.
School bus questions almost never belong with the school office — they belong with the district’s transportation department, which has the routes, the radios and the GPS. This directory gives you that number directly, for districts from Maine to Florida.
Look up your district
Choose your state, then narrow by county, or just type your town’s name.
We are not a school district. Every number and link below was copied from the
district’s own official page. Districts change contractors, phone menus and walk-zone
rules often, so treat what the district tells you as the final word — not us.
Where we cover
The whole East Coast, Maine down to Florida — the same footprint as the rest of Station Bus Nation.
We follow the I-95 corridor, the spine that connects nearly every major East Coast metro. For each state we list the state education department — the office that sets the rules and hears appeals — plus the largest districts by enrollment, which is where most families are.
Two of the states we cover, Vermont and West Virginia, sit off the interstate. They’re shown as branch stops on the map, but they’re covered exactly the same.
Tap any state on the line to jump straight to its districts. If your own
district isn’t listed, the three steps below find its number in about a minute.
Don’t see your district?
We list state education departments and the larger districts in each state. If yours isn’t here, these three steps find the right number every time.
- Search for your district name plus the word “transportation” — almost every district has a page under that exact word.
- If there’s no direct line, call the district central office, not your child’s school, and ask for the transportation department.
- Still stuck? Call your state education department — listed above for every state we cover. They can’t find your bus, but they can tell you who runs it.
If a child is missing, don’t start with a directory. Call the district
transportation dispatch, then the school, then the police non-emergency line. If the child
is unaccounted for, call 911.
The rest of this section
Bus safety
The danger zone, crossing correctly, stop-arm laws, seat belts, and what the federal crash data actually says about how safe the bus is.
When something goes wrong
Bus never came, child left at a stop, wrong drop-off, bullying on board — who to call, in what order, and what to put in writing.
Special rights
IEP and 504 transportation, McKinney-Vento for families without stable housing, and foster care school-of-origin rules under ESSA.