Bus Transportation
Download the 22.23-Transportation-Application.
School Dismissal Manager
EVCS uses School Dismissal Manager (SDM) along with Fast Lane to coordinate safe, efficient dismissal everyday.
Learn more basic information about School Dismissal Manager here: SDM Parent Intro
Each new family will be required to set up an account with School Dismissal Manager before starting school. At the beginning of each school year, each family will be required to set their child’s default dismissal schedule before returning to school. This is for all families, even if you never plan to pick up your child and will only be using the bus.
To communicate how you will pick up your child at the end of each day:
Parents/Guardians can use School Dismissal Manager to indicate how their child will get home at the end of the day, and also to indicate absences, reasons for leaving school early, and reasons for a tardy arrival.
Parents/Guardians can use School Dismissal Manager to set a default pick up status and can change their child’s pick up status as late as 2pm (10am on an early dismissal day). To make changes after 2pm, call the office or reach out to Kelly Norlen (Days Park) or Dylan Gechoff (Hertel).
School Dismissal Manager & Fast Lane
Upon arrival at the Fast Lane, the parent/guardian or other verified pick-up person, checks in with EVCS staff. Their arrival to the Fast Lane is indicated in SDM and a message is sent to the classroom of the students that the person is verified to pick-up. These students will be dismissed from their classrooms & sent to the pick-up zone to load into their vehicle.
To make our pickup and dropoff via car as smooth as possible, cars should adhere to the directions provided by staff.
Bussing
Here is the: 22.23-Transportation-Application.
EVCS uses Buffalo Public School Transportation (BPST) services. The set up of routes and communication with families of pick-up/drop-off place & time, will come directly from BPST. You can contact them by calling 716-816-4895.
- EVCS will coordinate bus transportation for all qualifying students who live in the Buffalo School District. Parents/Guardians can pick up a form to start or change bus service at the main office or download the 22.23-Transportation-Application.
- Note: If you need to change your child’s transportation within Buffalo, changes can take as long as 2 weeks to go into effect.
- If you are changing your bus route due to a change in home address, please also notify our Registrar at mcantey@elmwoodvillageschool.org.
- Families that live outside of the Buffalo District are responsible for setting up bus transportation with their district. Note: Your home district’s calendar may differ from EVCS’ calendar — so it is important to submit the calendar along with the transportation application. You can find the calendar here.
- Kindergarteners and students under the age of 6: an adult must meet the bus at the stop in order for the child to get off the bus.
- Bus rules: While riding the bus, students are required to wear a seatbelt, remain in their seats, and adhere to the driver’s instructions. If a student is written up three times, EVCS retains the right to suspend them from using the bus.
If a bus is running late, please call the terminal directly (phone numbers below) and they will be able to tell you what time the bus will arrive at your stop.
