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Bus rider registration for the 2025-26 school year
This page is for families with students enrolled for the 2025–26 school year. Your child must have a school assignment that includes neighborhood or express bus transportation.
If you are new to the Wake County Public School System, please complete a Transportation Service Request when enrolling at your base school. The school’s data manager will enter your request.
Learn more on the Student Assignment page.
Transportation-ineligible and alternate stops
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Alternate Stop for before or after-school care transportation requests
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Transportation-Ineligible if your student’s school assignment requires parents to provide transportation.
Check if your child can ride a bus
Your child’s school assignment determines transportation eligibility.
You can find this information on the assignment letter or by using the Address Lookup Tool.
Do you need to fill out the form below?
Use this form if:
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Your child’s assignment includes neighborhood or express bus service and you want to request or update bus service.
Do not use this form if:
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The assignment requires parent transportation.
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Your child lives in a No Transport Zone.
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Your child will not ride the bus regularly.
Note: Students may be removed from the bus roster if they do not ride for 10 consecutive school days.
Cutoff dates for first day bus service
To ensure bus service on the first day of school, submit your request by:
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May 28, 2025 for multi-track year-round schools
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June 17, 2025 for modified, Track 4, and early colleges and academies
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July 15, 2025 for traditional calendar schools
If you submit a request after these dates, transportation will process it as soon as possible, but service may be delayed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Is WCPSS school bus transportation available to your student?
Your student's school assignment determines your transportation type. Transportation information is stated on your student's official school assignment letter and can be viewed via the WCPSS Address Look-Up Tool for the 2025-26 school year.
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Do you need to fill out this form?
This form is provided so that families of enrolled students whose school assignment for the 2025-26 school year provides for either neighborhood or express transportation can request or update bus ridership information.
Families can find up-to-date transportation information in your student’s Home Base/PowerSchool account. Sign up for an account at your student’s school. More information on Home Base is available at Student Information (Home Base).
See the following guidance on whether to fill out this form:
- If your student's school assignment provides for neighborhood or express busing and you would like to request a change in bus service, fill out this form.
- If your student's school assignment provides for neighborhood or express busing and the information is correct, do not complete this form.
- If your student's school assignment for the 2025-26 school year requires parents to provide transportation, do not fill out this form.
- If you have a student who resides in the No Transport Zone for the school he or she will attend for the 2025-26 school year, do not fill out this form.
Remember that school bus transportation is for regular riders. Do not fill out this form if your student will not ride the school bus on a consistent basis. Once bus routes have stabilized, the practice is to remove students from bus rosters if they do not ride the bus for 10 consecutive school days.
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What are the cut off dates for families to request Transportation Services to receive first day bus service?
Here are the 2025-26 cut off dates for eligible families (neighborhood or express service as determined by student's school assignment) requesting transportation to ensure service on the first day of school.
- Year-round calendar schools regardless of track assignment must request bus service by May 28, 2025
- Modified calendar schools must request bus service by June 16, 2025
- Traditional calendar schools must request bus service by July 14, 2025
For families who request transportation services after the cutoff date, bus service is not guaranteed for the beginning of the school year. Requests received after these cutoff dates will be processed in the order received. Transportation will make every effort to provide service using existing bus stops as quickly as possible.
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How are special needs students served?
Families of children who are in transition, have Individual Education Plans (IEPs), or have plans under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (504) may need to request special transportation, as they move into the community or change address. These families will need to enroll their child in the new school or notify their current school of the address change and inform school staff of their child's IEP, 504 plan or request assistance through the McKinney-Vento Program if the living situation is in transition.
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What if we moved and remain transportation eligible at our new address?
Families with students who have previously enrolled and are eligible for transportation may request school bus transportation to their new address. Please do not submit this form until your student's address has been updated by your school in PowerSchool. WCPSS has established cut-off dates to ensure service for the first day of school. Requests received after the applicable cut-off date will be processed in the order received. Transportation will make every effort to provide service to eligible students using existing bus stops as quickly as possible.
