Transportation Department

Bus Tracking Information

Petermann’s Bus Tracker app has been phased out and replaced with two different resources beginning with the 2024-25 school year:

• eLink is mandatory to retrieve bus stop locations and times and will be activated on Wednesday, Aug. 7. Bus information will not be provided over the phone due to limited resources in the bus garage.
  
  • eLink carries a constant connection with Petermann's routing software and displays time changes or delays in real time.
  • Click here to view instructions on how to access eLink (web-based, no download required).

eLink

• BusZone is an optional app but is highly recommended in order to track buses.
  
  • Parents should opt-in for messaging to receive important messages as needed.
  • BusZone allows a geofence to be set around specific neighborhoods in order to notify users when the bus is in the area.
  • A geofence can also be set up around your child's school to monitor when the bus arrives or departs.
  • BusZone instructions: English | Spanish

BusZone for Android devices

BusZone for Apple devices

Mandatory Opt-In and Transportation Information for 2024-25

Final Forms

Parents are required to “opt-in” for transportation for each student for the 2023-24 school year. This will allow transportation to route only those students that will be riding buses.

• The opt-in process for 2024-25 ends June 30, 2024.
• Opt-in will be handled through Final Forms.
• If the “opt-in” period is missed it may affect your child’s bus stop location and there could be a delay of up to two weeks to get a bus when school starts.
• Only one consistent stop is permitted for AM and one consistent stop for PM all five days of the week. AM and PM stop locations can be different (for example, home pick-up in the morning and day care drop-off in the afternoon).
• If your child attends a daycare and the center is closed, you will need to use the day care parking lot in order to use the bus. This will require you to be at the day care waiting for the bus for both AM and PM since there would be no day care staff to supervise the students. We will not change the bus stop location to your home.
• Any time you drive your child to school you will need to follow the car rider procedures at each building.
• If your student will not ride during the sports season, please indicate that on your opt-in form so we do not remove your student for the remainder of the school year.
• If students don’t ride for one month, they will be removed from the transportation schedule and you will need to complete an updated transportation form in Final Forms to add them back to the bus route. Having students on the roster that do not ride the bus can make stop times inaccurate for those that do.
• Students are not permitted to ride any bus other than their scheduled bus. Students are not permitted to ride buses home with friends.

Opt-ins are tracked as they are received and reminders are sent through Final Forms to those that have not responded.

We will not begin the actual routing process until after the opt-in period ends on June 30.

Opt-in forms can be accessed via Monroe's Final Forms portal.

If you have not yet registered for a Final Forms account, click here for instructions.