Parent Resources

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The Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT) provides service to over 600,000 students attending both public and non-public schools located within the five boroughs, neighboring counties and New Jersey and Connecticut. Transportation services include stop-to-school busing, door-to-door busing, student MetroCards for use on public transportation, and bus service for over 160,000 school field trips every year.

Our goal is to give parents and families the information they need to be informed and involved. You can learn more about general education eligibility and student MetroCards, find important safety guidelines and valuable tips to share with your child.

In the Key Documents section on the right, you can find helpful information about OPT policies and procedures including what happens if the school bus arrives at a student's destination and there is no adult at the stop to receive the child and how to request to 
change the location where a special education student is dropped off after school.

Search School and Student Information

You can use the OPT School and Student Transportation Search to search for transportation information by school and by student.
  • Choose the School Transportation Information search to see a school's session times, yellow bus and MetroCard information.

  •  Choose the Student Transportation Information search to see your child's information. You will need to enter your child's 9-digit student ID number and date of birth in order to view this information. For a general education student, you can see information that includes session times, scheduled morning pick-up and afternoon drop-off times, bus stop locations and bus company information. For a special education student you can see session times, route number and bus company information.


View the NYC public schools calendar.

View the non-public schools calendar.

View school bus delays and breakdowns.

View bus route status.