Transportation

Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, along with Voigt’s Bus Service, are pleased to provide transportation to all students in a safe manner. Each community member, school employee and bus service employee plays a role in our school’s bus safety program. We need your help to continue to make the school bus the safest way for children to get to school.

Main Contact

ISD 47 Transportation
1833 Osauka Road NE
Sauk Rapids, MN 56379
320-258-1995

Start of the School Year 21-22 Transportation

If you have moved, changed daycare or if pick-up/drop-off locations changed, you must complete a Transportation Request and Change Form.

If the above does not apply to you or your family, you will be receiving a email with your bus route number and pick up/drop off location later this summer.

Forms can be submitted by email to transportation@isd47.org or mailed to ISD 47 Transportation Department: 1833 Osauka Road NE Sauk Rapids, MN 56379

Please submit the Transportation Request and Change form to the Sauk Rapids-Rice Transportation Department as soon as possible, so that transportation arrangements can be made. ALL CHANGE REQUESTS REQUIRE TWO BUSINESS DAYS FOR PROCESSING AND CHILDREN MUST BE OUT AT THEIR STOPS 5 MINUTES PRIOR TO DESIGNATED PICKUP TIME.

Bus requests for Sauk Rapids-Rice children must be received by the transportation department on or before August 30, 2021, to receive route consideration. Children who submit their transportation requests after August 30, 2021, will be assigned to the closest, existing bus stop until routes are finalized after the first full week of the school year begins.

Parents/guardians are encouraged to utilize the Elink ,which is accessible by every family, to obtain the most accurate and up-to-date transportation information.

Bus Routes and Schedules

Bus route, schedules and routing information is available in Elink This feature is accessible at any time, by every family, to obtain the most accurate and up-to-date transportation information. For Elink directions, username and password information go to Elink Help.

You can now view where your student’s bus is located and get an estimated time of arrival to the bus stop. More information may be found on the Versatrans Mystop app.

Who Do I Contact with Questions?

Bus Safety and Rules

School Bus Safety

At the bus stop, students of all ages are reminded to stand at least ten feet back from the area where the bus will stop. All approaches to the bus are to be directed by the driver. Student movement toward the bus can only be allowed when in response to the bus driver’s hand signal.

Make a plan with your student so both of you know what to do in the event of missing the bus. Running toward the bus stop or in pursuit of a moving vehicle is dangerous. Being late to school is a tolerable consequence.

Neighborhood cul-de-sac areas often have inexperienced preschool children eager to greet the bus and younger students returning home from school. School bus routing standards recommend that school buses avoid entering cul-de-sacs and turn arounds to the extent possible.

Parents are encouraged to monitor their children at bus stops. Many parents take turns with each other so as to provide daily supervision.

School Bus Rules

Be on time for the bus.
Always watch the driver to signal you before crossing the road.
Be courteous and listen to the driver; do what the driver asks the first time they ask.
Find a seat quickly and allow other students to sit with you.
Sit facing forward with your backpack on your lap.
Keep your feet on the floor, not on the seats and not in the aisles.
Visit with other students in your area of the bus in a quiet manner.
Everything else is unacceptable behavior on the bus and the consequence is having an incident report turned in to your building principal. This could lead to your suspension from riding the bus.
No pets or animals are allowed on the bus.

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