Thank you for all the patience and support that you have given the CISD Transportation Team over the years. Driving a school bus takes dedicated and caring employees that love their students and are thrilled to be making a positive difference in student's lives.  Our school bus drivers and monitors have been conducting practice runs in order to make the start of school as safe and smooth as possible, and we thank those of you who have contacted us with kind words about seeing buses rolling again.  

We are seeing a number of students that have signed up for remote learning and we are adjusting routes when and where possible.  

The current environment is creating a shortage of school bus drivers for this upcoming school year so we are asking for your help and consideration in a couple of ways:
     *  If your child is scheduled to attend campus instruction in person and you plan on driving them, we are asking you to please visit our website at https://www.conroeisd.net/transportation/ and select the Register for Transportation link:
          *This link will take you to  https://apps.conroeisd.net/AlternativeTransportation/ 
          *Please select "No" for transportation.  
          *This will make your child inactive for transportation services.  
          *Parent/Guardians can always go back in and change it to "Yes" at any time if your child needs to start riding the bus again.
          *Making your child inactive for transportation services helps us better identify which students will be using buses thus allowing us to be even more efficient with our routes, keeping numbers as small as possible per run, and assists in managing our current driver shortage.
          *This will also enable us to be more responsive to calls since we have to rely on certified office staff to drive when faced with bus driver shortages.
          *Please note in advance to complete any of these online requests please have your child's C.I.S.D. student I.D. number and birth date available before starting the process.

     *Should your child be attending in-person instruction and you plan for them to ride the bus, we are asking you to please visit Register for Transportation and check Yes again to ensure we have your child selected for a route.

For complete information on bus transportation, including bus numbers and stop times, please visit https://www.conroeisd.net/transportation/ .

If you are new to C.I.S.D. this fall it is required to sign your child up for transportation. This can be done by accessing https://apps.conroeisd.net/AlternativeTransportation/ .

Our car rider dismissal is being redesigned to address the increased numbers of parents picking up children in the afternoon at Collins.

Call to change transportation will end 3:15 PM
Early Check out of students will end 3:20 PM
Cones for car rider dismissal will be set 3:25 PM
First Flight (10 cars ) will be pull up at 3:30 PM

Through this redesign we have made adjustments to our dismissal order.
We believe the car rider line is the fastest and safest process for students and parents during dismissal.
Bikers will be released at 4:00.
Car Rider dismissal will begin once bikers have started to clear.
Cars leaving Collins will only be allowed to make a right hand turn to exit towards Research Forest.
After several flights of cars have left campus students walking to their home in nearby neighborhoods will be released.
After two to three more flights of cars have been dismissed any students walking to the YMCA will be dismissed.
Car dismissal will continue until process is completed.

Bus students dismiss from the back of the school.  More information regarding their process will be included in the Wednesday, August 26th information.

Collins car dismissal will be adjusted this year to account for a larger amount of families picking up students and the requirement to socially distance students.

Each family will receive a car rider tag with a student barcode.  For those families that carpool a combination tag will also be provided.  Collins staff will use your car rider tag (with barcode) to scan in student(s) and identify the student to car.  We will load 10 cars at a time.  So the student will be linked to a specific car.  Students will be seated in their classroom and monitor a screen in the classroom to watch for notification of their flight (a series of 10 cars) and the car number (1 - 10).  Once notified the student will report quickly to their identified cone to meet the waiting car.

A video explanation will be sent home on Wednesday, August 26th to help parents understand the full Collins dismissal plan.

Each family will receive a car rider tag with student barcodes (regardless of mode of regular transportation).  

Car rider tags will be passed out during the four days of ramp up prior to the afternoon dismissal process beginning. Our students safety is our #1 priority so thank you for being patient with this process.