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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:

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. 

New this year: K-1st grade guardians/parents will need to pick their child up from the bus doors at drop off.

The district will accept 80 applications for the shuttle bus, 40 from the St. John’s lot and 40 from the Holmes lot to Amity. Those 80 students must be committed to fulfilling the obligations outlined in the application form. Once the 80 student limit has been confirmed all other students will be placed on a waiting list in the order the request is received. 

To obtain additional information for the privilege of the shuttle, please call the Amity Elementary School Office at 513.891.5995 or email Maggie Querry at m.querry@dpccsd.org. 

To apply for the Shuttle you must: 

  1. Fill out the online application found here.  One per student (even if in the same family).
  2. Confirmation will be sent via email in August before school starts.

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 Amity Elementary at 513-891-5995 as soon as possible.
  6. If your child(ren) miss 3 days in a row without verbal notification to Amity 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. Please be sure to arrive prior to 7:55 am to ensure the bus leaves on time to have students at Amity for the 8:10 am start of school.
  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 3:05 P.M., and will arrive at Holmes at approximately 3:20 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). 

Shuttle Bus Rules and Guidelines: 

  1. Rules and guidelines must be followed at all times and are posted on the bus. 
  2. Students must sit in their assigned seat upon entering the bus. 
  3. Students must exit the bus in an orderly fashion. 
  4. Students will follow same behavior guidelines as required in the classroom. 
  5. If your child is unruly on the bus and/or consistently breaking bus rules, your child is written up by the driver, he/she may be removed from the shuttle roster. 
  6. If your child is written up 3 times by the driver and/or shuttle supervising staff member at Amity, he/she may be permanently removed from the shuttle roster for the remainder of the school year. Parents will be notified if the child receives a write up.   

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