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Transportation

Deer Park Transportation Department

The Transportation Department determines routes, bus stops, assigns drivers for classroom and/or athletic field trips and plans for inclement weather. One Supervisor and three Regular drivers transport approximately 15 specialized students, 105 public school students on the shuttle bus from Holmes and St. John's to Amity Elementary and Scarlet Oaks students, for a total of 120 students, in four school buses every day of the school year. To contact the transportation Department, call the office at 936-4677.

Special Needs Children: Deer Park Transportation provides services for approximately 15 special needs children. Parents must notify the Transportation Office if their child will not be riding the bus that day. Parents can call the office number to report a child not riding at any time.

Field Trips: All approved paperwork should be completed and received by Transportation 15 days in advance of the trip.

Inclement Weather: Although we are a walking district, there are times when school and/ or extracurricular transportation may be affected. For this information, please check any of the following sources:

Shuttle Bus Information 2024-25

Deer Park City School District is able to arrange shuttle buses to transport students in grades K-6 from St. John’s Parish and Holmes
parking lots to Amity on a daily basis to alleviate/reduce the vehicle congestion during drop off in the morning and pick up at the
end of the day. The shuttles provide daily transportation 2 times daily, in the morning and after school only to those families who
can commit to the daily routine delivering and picking up their child safely at St. John’s and Holmes.

The district will accept 100 applications for the shuttle bus, 50 from the St. John’s lot and 50 from the Holmes lot to Amity. Those 100 students must be committed to fulfilling the obligations outlined in the application form. Once the 100 student limit has been confirmed all other students will be placed on a waiting list in the order the request is received.

Parents of KG, 1st, or 2nd graders - a hard copy of the form was placed on FinalForms for all students in KG through 2nd grade.  If you have already filled out a hard copy of the form and returned it to the transportation office, you don't need to fill out the electronic form

To obtain additional information for the privilege of the shuttle, please call the Deer Park Board of Education Office at 513.891.0222 or email Carolyn Thornton at thornton.c@dpccsd.org.

To apply for the Shuttle you must:

  1. Fill out the online application found here.
  2. Fill out one application for each of your students in grades K - 6 who intend to ride the shuttle.

Application Instructions:

  1. One Shuttle request per child must be on file including emergency contact information.
  2. The child/parent will follow of the procedures and rules of the Shuttle.
    (Bus rules are also posted on the bus.)
  3. The parent must arrive at St. John’s or Holmes on time daily.
  4. The parent must commit for the child(ren) to ride the shuttle daily.
  5. If your child(ren) will NOT be riding the shuttle that day, the parent must contact the Transportation Office (936-4677) by 7:00 a.m. that morning.
  6. If your child(ren) miss 3 days in a row without verbal notification to the transportation office or if you fail to pick up your child 3 times from St. John’s or Holmes your child will be removed from the shuttle roster.

The shuttle process in the morning is as follows:

  1. We will be utilizing two separate buses for the shuttle.
  2. One bus will arrive at St. John’s at 7:50 A.M and depart at 7:55 A.M. and the other bus will arrive at Holmes at 7:50 A.M. and depart at 7:55 A.M. to Amity.
  3. If your child is not there and on the bus by the departure time, the parent will be responsible for transporting the child to Amity.
  4. Once the bus shuttle begins to move it will not stop or allow anyone on so, please do not chase the bus down as you may cause a dangerous situation.
  5. Students will be greeted by a staff member who will escort students to the school.

The shuttle process in the afternoon is as follows:

  1. The bus will arrive back at St. John’s approximately 3:20 P.M., and will arrive at Holmes approximately 3:35 P.M.
  2. Please be certain that you are there to receive your child off of the bus.
  3. The bus will not be able to wait for you to arrive as there are other trips and students depending on their ride. There is no available supervision at time of pick up therefore, you are responsible for the safety of your child(ren).

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