Transportation

If you have moved, be sure to fill out the Change of Address form and changes to the student's assigned bus stops will be made within three to five business days.

If you've chosen alternate enrollment into another school in the district or if you've open enrolled from another district, you may be able to catch a bus to school. If you are willing to meet the bus at an existing stop location for the alternate school AND there is room for your student on that bus, your student may be allowed to ride.

Be sure to submit the Alternate Enrollment Busing Request form if you are enrolled in another school within the Stillwater Area Public School boundaries or the Out of District Transportation form if outside of the district boundaries annually by June 15.

New students within Stillwater Area Public Schools can find their bus route within the Tyler's Versatrans e-Link. Families can then track buses on a daily basis through the MyStop bus tracker. 

High school students must register for transportation, while new K-8 students who requested transportation during their enrollment process will be added to bus routes automatically.

The Emergency Medical form should be submitted for students with special needs.

All students who ride a bus are subject to rules and regulations set forth by the State of Minnesota and the District’s School Board. A violation of those rules may result, depending on frequency and severity, in suspension of bus riding privileges. The school bus is considered to be an extension of the classroom.

If a student misbehaves, the driver has several options available. A driver may pull the bus over, give a verbal warning, assign seating, write a conduct report, or a combination of all of these. Any notification of discipline will come from your school. Drivers only generate reports, they are not responsible for deciding what the results of those reports will be. Schools have a principal or assistant principal in charge of student conduct forms and bus discipline.

Before they can be hired as a school bus driver, an individual must pass a criminal background check and their driving record is scanned for violations. As part of their training, each school bus driver is given instruction in student management. Every driver knows their primary responsibility is the safety of each child on their bus. When a student misbehaves, it can distract the driver from the safe operation of the bus.

Can my child lose his/her bus riding privileges?
In Minnesota, riding a school bus is a privilege and not a right. Each local school district has adopted rules of conduct for waiting at the bus stop and for riding the school bus. If your child does not follow the rules, your child could lose his/her bus riding privileges for the entire school year.

Will my child receive school bus safety training at school?
Yes. Children in kindergarten through Grade 10 must receive school bus safety training during the first few weeks of school. It is recommended that parents review the school bus safety rules with younger children throughout the school year.

How to access your bus schedule

1. Go to Tyler's Versatrans e-Link and click the login button.

Your username is:  Student ID
Your password is:  Student's eight-digit DOB (mmddyyyy)

2. Once on the home page, click on “Students” (white text in upper left in gray bar)

3. Click on “View My Students” (underlined blue text). This should bring up a list of the students in your home for the school year.

4. Click on your student to reveal their bus schedule.

How to read the schedule

Type: IN = the inbound trip to school (from left to right)

• From: pick-up location (letters in brackets show which direction the door of the bus will be facing when the stop is made)

• Time: scheduled pick-up time

• Bus: number/name

• Days: which days of the week - MTWHF (T=Tues and H=Thurs)

• To: school building or program name

• Time: drop-off time at building/program

Type: OUT = the outbound trip from school (from left to right)

• From: school building or program name

• Time: scheduled departure time

• Bus: number/name

• Days: which days of the week - MTWHF (T=Tues and H=Thurs)

• To: drop-off location (letters in brackets show which direction the door of the bus will be facing when the stop is made)

• Time: scheduled drop-off time

Please check your schedule carefully, as your student may be scheduled on a different bus in the afternoon than in the morning, and times may vary by day.

How to print the schedule

Go to the white box with the drop down arrow that says “Choose Export Option”,  select “Display PDF version”, and click “Go” next to the box. This will display a printable version of the information.

Versatrans MyStop™ is a free mobile app available in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store that provides all Stillwater Area Public School families with access to current bus location information. The app compares GPS data to routing data to give families information as to where their school bus is located and what time it is expected to be at their stop.

What if I have multiple students attending different schools? 
While a Username and Password is generated for each student, once logged into the app users can switch between students in the same family household by tapping or clicking on the student’s name in the upper left corner of the app and selecting the an alternate student. 

Can anyone else see my student’s bus information? 
Only if you share the username and password for your student. The login information is not exclusive, meaning multiple people can be logged in with the same information (i.e. Mom, Dad, 10th grader, 8th grade sibling, etc.) on several devices at the same time. Although each user can view the path of their student’s assigned bus, only the information for that user’s student’s stop is visible to them. No personal data (phone, address, e-mail, etc.) of any kind is accessible. 

How do I log into Versatrans My Stop™? 
Login information is available on the student info tab in Powerschool, including their username. The login password is the student's eight-digit date of birth (mmddyyyy), without “/”s and formatted with leading 0s for single digit months and days. Examples: 1/1/2000 would be 01012000, 7/10/2012 would be 07102012, and 10/2/2014 would be 10022014.