Transportation

Your child's transportation information is available through the Home Access Center (HAC). It can be accessed beginning one week prior to the start of school. Once you have logged into HAC, you will see your child’s bus route by clicking on the Registration icon at the top of the page. Transportation information will be displayed in the middle of the screen.

If your family is new to Centerville Schools or has never set up a HAC account, you will need to set up your account using these instructions:

1. Navigate to the Home Access Center. 

2. Scroll down toward the bottom of the page where you will see a link labeled "Click Here to Register for HAC." 

3. In order for this process to work, you must have a valid email address on record. You will need to register using the first/last name, city and zip code for the parent/guardian. These values must match exactly what was submitted at the time of enrollment.

If you need any assistance with logging into your account, please email: hac@centerville.k12.oh.us

Students at all grade levels must have a Transportation Form on file with their school, whether they are riding a school bus or using alternate transportation. Transportation forms will be sent from each school office via ParentSquare in early June. If you still need to complete your child's transportation form, you can access all the forms on this page under the 2024-25 Transportation Forms for Centerville Students tab.

Please see the Bus Riding Policies tab on this page.

When we approach the stop, your child's driver is counting the number of children who might be at that stop. He or she will make sure the same number of children get on the bus to ensure no one has slipped, fallen, or dropped something into what we call the "danger zone" where they cannot be seen.

This is especially important in the winter months. It's dark out and there may be snow or ice that the children could slip on.

No, you do not have to call us! We ask our drivers to stop at each address as this will keep them on schedule for the next stop.

If your child rides a Special Needs bus, please call the Transportation office only if you are running late to the bus stop. We will do our best to accommodate the late arrival.

We use a state-of-the-art routing software. Each driver carries on their bus two, and maybe three, different routes printed on paper. These are for our AM, midday, and PM routes. They include turn-for-turn and stop-for-stop information for the driver.

Your child's regular driver soon commits this and your child's name and stop to memory.

When we use a sub, they simply refer to the route sheet and follow it. However, they are nowhere near as familiar with addresses, etc. as your regular driver and will probably run behind schedule.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a bus instead of traveling by car. That’s because school buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road; they’re designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing crashes and injuries; and in every state, stop-arm laws protect children from other motorists.

Please notify your child's school if you are temporarily changing their transportation (for example, parent pick-up rather than riding the bus home). Contact information for each school office can be found on our Contact Us page or by navigating to your child's school on ParentSquare and sending a direct message to the school or unit secretary.

No. Please let your child's school know about any changes! Many children forget to present the note until they are leaving school. As you can imagine, with thousands of bus riders, this creates very confusing few moments, especially for younger children and their teachers.

Please call or email your child's school office with ANY change as this is vital for emergencies or bus routing!

Just as any other profession, we have drivers who get sick, or they have a sick child at home, a dental appointment, etc. With that in mind, we will use a sub to run your child's route. These are very professional people; however, they have no way of knowing everything your regular driver does. We will be there, and we will get your children picked up and dropped off safely, but we will probably run a little behind schedule.

If we have a scheduled two-hour delay or the superintendent determines the weather is bad enough for a delay, morning pick-up time for bus riders will be two hours later than the normal schedule.

Delayed start times for schools will be:

• Full Day Kindergarten (Special Needs Students) - 10:10 a.m.
• Morning Preschool & Kindergarten - 10:10-11:50 a.m.*
• Afternoon Preschool & Kindergarten - 12:55-2:35 p.m.**
• 1st Graders - 10:10 a.m.
• Centerville Elementary Schools (grades 2-5) - 10 a.m.
• Centerville Middle Schools (grades 6-8) - 10:50 a.m.
• Centerville High School - 9:50 a.m.
• School of Possibilities - 10:15 a.m. / 1:45 p.m.

* Dismissal time will be 11:50 for AM Preschool and Kindergarten.
** Start of PM Preschool and Kindergarten will be delayed one hour.

End-of-day dismissal times will not change.