Immediate Assistance / Asistencia Inmediata    SMART tag FAQs & Guidelines / Preguntas Frequentes del nuevo pase

Eagle County Schools's Transportation Department operates 50 buses running 27 bus routes. We transport 3,722 students safely, to and from school, covering 2,447 route miles per day.  We also transport students all over the state to various sporting events, field trips, and other cultural learning opportunities. Altogether, our buses log around 500,000 miles annually. We have operated without passenger injury for over 2 decades. Safe operation of school buses requires cooperation and collaboration of drivers, riders, parents, and schools.  The rules for riding are available below in both English or Spanish.

Bus passes are required to ride the bus. If your child missed picture day or has lost their pass please call 328-2744 for assistance. The cost for the first replacement bus pass is $5.00.  Consecutive bus passes will be $25.00 plus graduating student behavior reports up to the loss of riding privileges for the remainder of the school year. An updated picture of your student is also required to receive a bus pass. 

Please explain to your child that drivers do not wait for running students. Most student accidents happen from slipping and falling while running. To discourage this unsafe practice, we don't wait for runners and instead, ask that children arrive at their 5 minutes prior to the bus stop arrival time to catch the bus.

Coming Fall 2017 - Smart Tag Bus Pass System

As of October 2nd, 2017, all ECS students that wish to ride the bus will be required to produce a Smart Tag bus pass each time they ride their assigned school bus. Eligible riders will receive a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card, much like a ski pass, that will be required for the student to board the bus. The assigned card will be good for the life of the students’ ECS career. For the security of the student, photos will not appear on the face of the card. All individual student information will be stored in a password-protected system, that only the
parent or guardian of the student assigned to the individual RFID card will be able to access. 

Why Smart Tag?

Space Available Transportation

The transportation of Variance/Transfer students is available on a Space Available basis on routes that have the capacity/room to do so. Please complete a Space Available Transportation Request form and return it to the Transportation Department no later than September 1st of this school year. Notification of the approval or denial of your request shall be made to you no later than September 15th of each school year. Please plan to transport your student until you have been verified and authorized to ride a requested route. DO NOT drop your student at a bus stop until your student has been approved to ride!

Please note that; should student numbers, of the regularly assigned students to a bus, increase to above those in the calculations below then Transfer/Variance students will no longer be transported. Parents will be notified in the event that this happens so as to make other transportation arrangements.