State law requires private schools to notify each public school board within your school’s attendance area of the names, grade levels and locations of all pupils eligible to receive transportation in the coming school year.
If you do not meet the deadline, your students can be denied busing.
In order to accommodate students that may have transferred or may need transportation in the future, schools should include on the last line of the student roster: “Any other students who are now unknown to us and who appear any time after the May 15, 2019 deadline, seeking enrollment in our school.” This will ensure that any new students to your school will have access to busing.
If you did not meet the attendance area deadline on April 1, 2019, then the existing attendance area on file with your resident public school district will remain in effect for the 2019-20 school year.
Information about transportation can be found on page 6 of the 2018-19 WCRIS Legal Handbook, which you can also access online here.
