How do I register for a bus?
When you enrolled your children, you automatically enrolled them on a bus. There is no need to fill out any additional paperwork. Approximately two weeks before school starts in August, you will receive a letter giving bus information from your school. Your child is eligible to ride the bus that goes to their school from the stop closest to your home.
If you have been allowed to enroll, because you have promised to move into the district within a set period of time, your child may not actually ride a bus until the move takes place.
How do I get my child taken to a sitter's home?
Registering for transportation to a sitter’s home or other daycare provider is easy.
If you intend for your child to be dropped of at anyone’s home for a night or two, you can write a note to that effect.
Be sure to sign the note. Your child must also have a building principal sign the note. Driver’s cannot let any child, who is not assigned to them, board their bus without a valid note with both your signature and a principal’s signature.
If you need this service for more than one week, then you must fill out a Transportation Request Form, and have it approved, prior to your child boarding.
Click the link below to be taken to the Transportation Request Form. This form automatically expires at the end of each school year.
1. Fill out the form
2. Print it.
3. Sign it.
4. Turn it into your building’s secretary.
How do I get permission for my child to ride to the home of my ex-spouse?
See the above tab for Transportation Forms. This form automatically expires at the end of each school year.
1. Fill out all the areas of the form that can be typed in. Type the phrase “Joint Custody” in the special instructions blank. For the sitter’s name, give the parent’s name and their relationship to the student. Example: June Smith-Mother.
2. Print it.
3. Sign it.
How do I pay for my child to ride a bus, since I was told they have to walk?
Each ride on the bus is 35 cents.
See the above tab for Transportation Forms. This form automatically expires at the end of each school year.
1. Fill out all the areas of the form that can be typed in.
2. Print it.
3. Sign it.
4. Return it to Hadley House
There are two different forms depending on the type of transportation you seek. If you have been informed that your child is a walker and wish to pay for him or her to ride the bus then use the Paid Transportation Request Form to arrange to ride the bus to and from your home. If you wish pay so that your child can ride to a sitter’s home then use the Daycare/Sitter Form instead.
How do I get permission for my child to ride to a friend's house for one night?
If you intend for your child to be dropped of at anyone’s home for a night or two, you can write a note to that effect.
Be sure to sign the note. Your child must also have a building principal sign the note. Driver’s cannot let any child, who is not assigned to them, board their bus without a valid note with both your signature and a principal’s signature.
If you need this service for more than one week, then you must fill out a Transportation Request Form (see the above tab), and have it approved, prior to your child boarding.
How do I let you know we are moving?
Edwardsville is a fast changing area. People are constantly moving into the district, out of the district, and across the district. Below are some tips that will help in dealing with the subject of your move.
1. Notify each building of your move. (Example: You have one child in the high school and one child in Woodland. Notify both the high school and Woodland of your new address, phone number, and when you expect the move to actually take place.) Notifying First Student of a change of address does not preserve your rights. Your student’s home bus will not be changed until we receive notification of your address change directly from the building your child is attending.
2. Some building principal’s may allow you to have your child remain in their building to finish out the current term. However, your bus service will terminate on the last day of your actual residency.
How do I sign up for Early Bird bus service?
Early Bird buses pickup students at each elementary school.
How does a Parochial student ride the bus?
Parochial students that live within the Edwardsville School District may ride the school district’s buses. In the morning, Parochial students will ride the high school bus that is closest to their residence. Students will then take a shuttle bus from the Edwardsville High School to the appropriate Parochial school. In the afternoon, shuttle buses will pick up the Parochial students from their school and shuttle them to the appropriate Middle School, based on their residence. At the Middle Schools, parochial students will transfer from the shuttle bus to the Middle School bus that will drop them at the closest stop to their residence. For more information or to determine which bus to ride, please contact (618) 656-0125.
