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Request for New Bus Stop or Location Change

If you are requesting a bus stop for your child that is different than the one assigned to your home address, please utilize this form and turn it into your school for processing.

Please understand that processing may take up to three to five days. During the beginning of the school year, routing for students riding the bus to and from the bus stop associated with the home address on file takes priority.

Additional stop/change requests will be handled as quickly as we are able to do so. Thank you for your understanding.

Additional Stop Change Request
- Addition Stop Change RequestPCPS.pdf
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Now Hiring Bus Drivers!!

Full-Time Opportunities with Benefits ~ When the kids are off, so are you!
Apply online @ TalentEd Hiring Portal linked here

⏰ Office Hours: 6:00am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday

📞Transportation Department Phone Numbers: 804-598-5706 or 804-598-5709

👇 Check out our PCPS Bus Drivers wearing their If the Lights Are Flashing, Don't Try Passing shirts.
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2022-2023 Bus Routes

Due to privacy concerns, bus routes will no longer be available on the website. We are currently working on process for parents to look up their child's bus information via a secure, individual user, sign on. Until then, your child's bus stop information will be available for viewing beginning Tuesday, August 16, at your child's school, in a location designated by the school. This would include events such as Fee Night and Open Houses. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your patience. Thank you.

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About Us

🚌Powhatan County Public Schools operates a fleet of 81 buses and 40 vehicles with approximately 75 contract drivers, six assistants, and six substitute drivers. Our first pick up is approximately 6:30 in the morning and our last drop off is approximately 4:50 in the afternoon. With an average of 40 students per bus, we transport about 4,000 students daily. We provide bus service to general education and special needs students as well as extra-curricular school activities.

🗺️We operate 24 High School routes, 39 Middle School routes, 49 Elementary routes, and 12 Special Needs routes. Forty-nine of our routes are double runs - with a secondary (middle/high) and then an elementary school run made by the same bus.

🚍Our staff members include a director, a fleet manager, an administrative assistant, two driver dispatchers, an inventory specialist, and a transportation secretary. All are dedicated to the safety of our children. In addition to contract and substitute drivers, we have six fleet maintenance employees who service and maintain our fleet in tip-top condition. Our technicians are ASE certified and receive ongoing staff development on proper procedures dealing with school bus maintenance.

🔎Our office is located at 3975 Old Buckingham Road. Our staff is ready to respond to your questions and provide you with quality customer service.

⏰Office Hours: 6:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Friday

📞Transportation Department Phone Numbers: 804-598-5706 or 804-598-5709

📸 Transportation Pics

Thanks to Jody Decker (PMS/POCES Bus 46) for her artistic rendering of a PCPS school bus.
2018 VAPT poster contest 1st place Carter Quinn
2018 VAPT poster contest 2nd Place Sadie Bondurant