The Mid-Prairie School District is finalizing their new bus routes this summer.
Superintendent Mark Schneider said at the board meeting June 12 that new bus routes are being tweaked and practice runs are underway. The changes come in conjecture with the district’s learning center transition. Schneider describes the upcoming change, “It looks like we’ll have 13 bus routes in the morning and 9 or 10 of those bus routes really will stop at all four attendance centers. Previous school years we’ve done a lot of shuttling where, say six buses will show up at Wellman Elementary all at the same time and they open the doors and students are shuffled between all of the six buses, and then the six buses take off and go to the different places. We really have kind of a different philosophy moving forward, so 9 or 10 out of these 13 bus routes, the buses will actually stop at all four attendance centers so there won’t be any need to have that mass confusion of a lot of students changing a lot of buses. So I think that will help the bus drivers build relationships with their students more, and also with the parents of those students and it’ll be just a lot less chaos.”
The new transportation routes are planned to be shared with students and parents by mid-summer, with the possibility of future adjustments to be added.