Transportation Changes for the 2025-2026 School Year
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Alberta Education has announced adjustments for the distance requirements for students accessing school bus service. For the 2025-2026 school year, Kindergarten to Grade 6 students who live 1.6 kilometres or more from their designated schools will be eligible for bussing. This represents a change from the current eligibility requirements of 1 kilometre for Kindergarten to Grade 6.
Due to the changes in distance eligibility, students in Kindergarten to Grade 6 who reside between 1-1.59 kilometers and were transported to their designated school in the 2024-2025 school year will no longer be eligible for transportation beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.
For students in Grade 7 to Grade 12, the 2-kilometre eligibility requirement will remain in place.
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Eligibility for the 2025-2026 school year (distance from designated school) |
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Grades K-6 who live 1.6 km or greater |
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Grades 7-12 who live 2 km or greater |
Our industry-standard routing software calculates the driving distance from the student address on file to the designated school of attendance. We cannot accept calculations from online maps.
Those students and families who are affected by the changes will be notified by email by June 6, 2025.
For more information, visit www.lrsd.ca/transportation.
