Student Transportation
The DPS Bus Rider Registration form will be used by the Office of Transportation Services to determine eligibility and bus route preparation. Parents/guardians should complete this form for each student if you did not last year. Those who submitted the transportation form last year will be carried over to this year.
Transportation requests for students with disabilities are submitted by the Office of Exceptional Children and parents should not use the online request form.
DPS utilizes a north/south transportation zone system. If K-8 students attend a school in the same zone in which they live, they automatically receive transportation provided that students meet one or more of these criteria:
- Lives more than 1.5 miles from his/her school, OR
- Has a route to school affected by one of four hazards (river, active railroad tracks, bridge with no sidewalks, and major highways), OR
- Has transportation specified in his/her IEP.
- A transportation request for a non-DPS student may be made through the school he/she attends.
Read about the change to North and South Transportation Zones here.
North Zone schools: Belle Haven Elementary, Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy (district-wide school), Fairview Elementary, Kiser Elementary, Kemp Elementary, Valerie Elementary, River’s Edge Montessori (district-wide school), Rosa Parks Early Learning Center (district-wide school), Edwin Joel Brown Middle School, Wright Brothers Middle School, Stivers School for the Arts (district-wide school), and Meadowdale CTC (district-wide school).
South Zone schools: Eastmont Elementary, Edison Elementary, Cleveland Elementary, Horace Mann Elementary, Louise Troy Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Ruskin Elementary, Westwood Elementary, the International School at Residence Park, Wogaman Middle School, Belmont High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, David H. Ponitz CTC (district-wide school), Mound Street Academy, and Thurgood Marshall STEM High School.
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