Preparing for shortage of school bus drivers
Preparing for shortage of school bus drivers after Monday, Oct. 18
Posted on 10/07/2021
The district has a plan of action due to the number of drivers who have not turned in their vaccine verification or obtained a medical or religious exemption to comply with the governor’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Please see the table below for the specifics on which schools will lose busing in the three different scenarios we are prepared for.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. the district will notify all families (in English and Spanish) who could potentially lose their school bus, so they can prepare for alternate ways to transport their students.
Once we have the final number of school bus drivers we will lose early next week, we will send a followup message to families who will in fact lose their district-provided transportation.
We will update and modify our plan as needed and know this is temporary until we can hire and train more drivers, which we are actively working on.
| School bus driver shortage impacts after Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Schools impacted: | If we lose between 1 and 7 drivers: | If we lose between 8 and 15 drivers: | If we lose between 16 to 22 drivers: |
| Beverly Elementary | Down 2 school buses (out of 4) | ||
| Brier Elementary | Down 1 school bus (out of 4) | ||
| Brier Terrace Middle | Down 1 school bus (out of 10) | Down 4 school buses (out of 10) | |
| Cedar Valley Community School | Down 1 school bus (out of 4) | ||
| Challenge Program (located at Terrace Park Elementary) | No school buses | ||
| College Place Middle | No school buses | ||
| Edmonds-Woodway HS | No school buses | ||
| Hazelwood Elementary | Down 1 school bus (out of 3) |
Down one school bus (out of 3) | |
| Hilltop Elementary | No school buses | ||
| Madrona K-8 | No school buses | ||
| Maplewood K-8 | Down 4 school buses (out of 5) |
No school buses | |
| Meadowdale Elementary | Down 1 school bus (out of 4) | Down 3 school buses (out of 4) | |
| Meadowdale High School | Down 3 school buses (out of 13) | ||
| Meadowdale Middle | Down 1 school bus (out of 10) |
Down 5 school buses (out of 10) | |
| Mountlake Terrace Elementary | No school buses | ||
| Mountlake Terrace High School | Down 4 school buses (out of 9) | ||
| Scriber Lake High School | No school buses | ||
| Sherwood Elementary | Down 3 school buses (out of 5) | ||
| Terrace Park Elementary | No school buses | ||
| Westgate Elementary | No school buses | ||