STUDENT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

Safe, reliable and quality service to all students is the primary focus of the Transportation Department. While the department responds to its customers' requests for service throughout the year, new transportation requests should be submitted as early as possible to allow adequate time to efficiently route and dedicate available school vehicles. Most school vehicles are air-conditioned. Where necessary, wheelchair-accessible buses and vans are readily available.

Special Services Transportation: Students with special needs receive home-to-school and school-to-home school bus service by well-trained professionals. SW BOCES bus monitors, sensitive to these special needs students, are available where required by an IEP, as an addition to the basic service.

Career Services Transportation: Students attending classes at the SW BOCES Career Services Center in Valhalla receive timely school bus service from their high schools to the center and are returned back to their local schools at the end of class. On-campus shuttle service is provided as an additional service. The charge for this service is on a per-student basis.

Consortium Transportation Management: SW BOCES manages contract transportation programs for participating local school districts at a satellite transportation office. They include the Quad Village Transportation Program at Irvington High School for the Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson and Irvington school districts. The BEPT Transportation Program caters to students in the Bronxville, Eastchester, Pelham and Tuckahoe school districts. Since the inception of consortium management, SW BOCES has reduced transportation costs for districts while providing safe, reliable service by private bus companies.

Alternative High School Transportation: Students from local school districts are transported from their homes to the SW BOCES Alternative High School in Valhalla and are returned at the close of the school day.

Special Needs Transportation: Special needs students confined to wheelchairs receive professional transportation service in specially equipped, air-conditioned school vehicles. Where required by their IEP, specially trained SW BOCES bus monitors are available as an additional per-pupil service.

Field Trip Services: SW BOCES school buses and drivers are available for class and school field trips throughout the school year and summer.

Summer Special Services Transportation: Students with special needs receive home-to-school and school-to-home bus service to extended year classes during July and August. SW BOCES bus monitors are available where required by an IEP, as an addition to the basic service.