Bus Service

Although Berkeley Carroll works with a private bus service to provide transportation, we rely on Department of Education guidelines to establish who can ride the bus. Students who meet Department of Education guidelines qualify for bus service. Please reference the table on the Bus Service page for details about DOE guidelines. In some cases, when a student does not live near any existing bus routes, the school may not be able to accommodate a request to participate in the bus program. If you would like information about existing routes, please email transportation@berkeleycarroll.org.

The purpose of bus service is to get students from their assigned bus stop to school in the morning and from school to their assigned bus stop in the afternoon safely. 

Bus service is provided every regular day that school is in session, but it is not provided on orientation days or family conference days. Afternoon bus service is also not provided for PreK students during the “phase-in” period, and it is not provided to Lower School students on Arch Day. On school-wide half-days, bus service will be provided at the 12:00 p.m. dismissal.

Berkeley Carroll does its best to provide a close and convenient bus stop for all families, but in order to serve as many eligible families as possible, the school cannot provide door-to-door service. Each bus generally services 20-43 students and makes 6-10 stops. In most cases, bus stops will be within a five to eight block radius of each rider’s home.

The duration of the ride depends on the location of each students’ stop, where it falls on the route, and how many students ride each bus. Students who live furthest from the school can typically expect to be on the bus for between 45 minutes and one hour, unless they are coming from Manhattan or Queens, in which case the ride will likely be between one hour and 90 minutes. Students who live closer to the school can expect a shorter ride, of perhaps 20-40 minutes.