Transportation Newsletter
August 13th, 2026
- If you have already created a parent account in our EZRouting web portal, you may access it directly here: https://www.ezrouting.com/sdstpa
- If you are accessing the portal from a smartphone, you may need to collapse the “Student General Information” section by tapping on the gray section title bar.
- You do not need to check the boxes under "Submit Student Transportation Request." We do not use this feature of the software. Eligible riders will have bus schedules and may ride their assigned bus at any time regardless of the checkboxes in this section.
- Please note that in the “View Current Bus Schedules” section, you may need to advance the calendar to September to display transportation arrangements if your child's school does not begin until September.
- You may access instructions to create a parent account in the portal here: https://www.sdst.org/departments/transportation/accessing-bus-schedules
Students may ride only the bus they have been assigned and only to/from their assigned bus stop.
Children in kindergarten will be allowed off the bus only if a parent is at the bus stop. If you would like your child in kindergarten to be permitted off the bus with their sibling or alone, please contact us.
Bus stops designated at intersections are designed to service families that may come from any direction/street in the intersection. Students may wait at any corner of the intersection and traverse the intersection when the bus has arrived, the red warning lights are flashing, and the door is open.
Because of this, drivers are instructed to stop the bus at the point nearest the intersecting roadway without entering the intersection to provide the best visibility of the school bus to other traffic. Please do not ask the driver to move the stop or stop further from the intersection. Drivers are not authorized to change bus stops.
No matter your child’s age, discussing bus stop safety at least once yearly is a good idea. Safety tips to help with this conversation can be found at https://www.sdst.org/departments/transportation/bus-stop-safety.
If your stop is near private property, please be courteous to your community neighbors. Unless you have been invited, please do not allow your children onto lawns, into driveways, or otherwise enter private property. When sidewalks are available, children should wait on the public sidewalk for the bus.
Most transportation exception requests (split custody households, daycare stops, etc.) are reset yearly. If your assigned transportation does not reflect your family’s needs, please submit a Bus Stop Change Request in PowerSchool. Change requests must be received by Thursday, August 20. If you have questions or difficulties, please contact Transportation. Our contact information can be found at the bottom of this message.
Transportation is provided for high school and middle school students who attend Springfield Public Schools and have stayed on campus for academics, clubs, or sports. Students may not leave campus and return to ride a late bus home.
Students will be assigned to a "late bus" stop, which may be different than their regular morning/afternoon home-based stop, and will require walking further to get home from the bus stop. Late run bus stops will be available the week of August 24. Please plan to review with your child how to safely get home from their late bus stop before they plan to ride the late bus.
Late/activity buses will load/depart from the middle school cafeteria. High school students must use the tunnel to get on the bus. Departures will be at 4:00 pm and 4:45 pm. All students must sign in on the bus, and may ride only to their assigned stop.
Student Expectations
To maintain a safe and disciplined transportation environment, drivers may assign seats to students. All passengers are expected to stay seated properly at all times while on the bus, to speak at the same volume that is appropriate inside the school, and to be respectful of their peers and the driver.
Maintaining a Safe Bus
School bus drivers will always do their best to help students make safe and appropriate behavioral choices. However, they aren't able to see or hear every interaction that takes place between students.
If your child reports incidents of negative interactions with others, please reach out to their building principals and/or the transportation department. We will work as a team to investigate incidents and assign consequences, where appropriate.
Do not attempt to board your child's school bus. Unauthorized school bus entry is a third degree misdemeanor in Pennsylvania. Any instance of unauthorized adults boarding the school bus will be reported to our Supervisor of Campus Safety & Operations, who will consult with law enforcement as needed.
Video/Audio Recording
The school buses and vehicles used to transport our students may be equipped with video and audio recording equipment. School officials may review recorded media for disciplinary and security-related purposes, provide it to law enforcement or a court of law, or use it in school disciplinary proceedings. Students, staff, and chaperones/volunteers should understand that their actions and words may be recorded while they are on school buses or school vehicles and that they should have no expectation of privacy during that time.
The law requires all drivers to be prepared to stop when the school bus’s amber warning lights are flashing and to stop at least 10 feet before reaching the bus when the red warning lights are flashing. Drivers approaching an intersection at which a school bus is stopped must also stop at the intersection until the red warning lights are turned off. For more information, see PennDOT's School Bus Stopping Law Fact Sheet.
When in doubt, STOP!