1. Cache County School District Pupil Transportation 2011-2012
10,723 students
Twice each day
180 days each year
3.9 million passenger trips per year
125 school buses

2. Cache Regular Ed.Students
3,654 (K-5) bused
5,078 (6-12) bused
8,732 Total bused
15,578 Total students

3. Percent of Students Transported
State average 46%
National Average 50%
Cache average 56%

4. Students who are eligible for busing
Students in grades K – 6 living at least 1.5 miles from their assigned school.
Students in grades 7 – 12 living at least 2 miles from their assigned school.
Students with disabilities whose IEP requires transportation are eligible regardless of distance from school.
Title 53A of Utah code.

5. Cache – Logan Partnership
Cache students 15578
Cache bused 8,732
Cache bused 56%
Logan students 6,142
Logan bused 1,897
Logan bused 31%

6. Cache – Logan Partnership Cont.
Not simply Cache providing transportation for Logan.
Logan purchased 8 buses, which were placed in the combined fleet.
If they bus more students (growth in student population, grade configurations, change start times or boundaries) they must purchase the additional buses.

7. School Times
All County School Bell Times are the same as they were prior to the partnership with Logan except that many county schools have added early release to their schedules.

8. School Beginning and Ending Times
CACHE COUNTY SCHOOLS
SCHOOL DAY BEGINNING AND CLOSING TIMES (Monday - Thursday)
SCHOOL Beg. End Friday End
Birch Creek 9:00 3:20 2:05
Canyon 9:05 3:25 2:10
Greenville 9:05 3:25 2:10
Heritage 9:05 3:25 2:10
Lewiston 9:05 3:25 2:10
Lincoln 9:05 3:25 2:10
Millville 9:05 3:25 2:10
Mountainside 9:05 3:25 2:10
Nibley 9:00 3:20 2:05
North Park 9:00 3:20 2:05
Park 9:00 3:20 2:05
Providence 9:05 3:25 2:10
River Heights 9:05 3:25 2:15
Summit 9:00 3:20 2:05
Sunrise 8:55 3:15 2:05
Wellsville 9:00 3:25 2:10
 Cedar Ridge 7:30 2:10 12:55
Spring Creek 7:30 2:10 12:55
White Pine :30 2:10 12:55
Willow Valley 7:30 2:10 12:55
 North Cache 7:50 2:35 1:20
South Cache 8:05 2:45 1:30
Mountain Crest 8:00 2:45 1:30
Sky View 7:45 2:35 1:20
Cache High 8:00 2:25 1:10

9. Items That Determine Numbers of Students Being Bused
Number of available buses
Grade configurations
Length of day
School locations

10. Bus Fleet Profile Logan regular ed. 6 Shop buses 8 Activity/field 15
Special needs
Cache regular ed
Total buses

11. Bus Fleet Profile (cont.)
Buses with more than 300,000 miles – 12
Buses with more than 200,000 miles – 58
Buses with more than 100,000 miles – 35
Buses with less than 100,000 miles – 20
We are the only district in the state to have standard transmission buses in the fleet.
Our oldest school buses are model year 1989
We need to purchase around 7 per year to maintain a 20 year rotation. We are currently purchasing 4 per year.

12. B. Grade Configurations
The fewer number of grades attending a school, means the boundary of the school has to be larger to gather enough students to fill the school.
The greater number of grades attending a school, means the boundary of the school can be smaller to gather enough students to fill the school.

13. (b.) 2 Grades inside walk boundary

14. (b.) 3 Grades inside walk boundary

15. (b.) Grade Configurations, cont.
In the North end of the district, some students attended 5 schools for: K-2, 3-5, 6-7, 8-9, and
Our schools are all now: K-5, 6-7, 8-9,
Moving to this standard grade configuration has reduced the number of buses needed in the North end Elementary schools. Those buses have simply been moved to accommodate the need for additional buses to address high growth communities.
In general principle, adding more grades to schools would allow us to use existing buses to address high growth areas without having to purchase additional buses at an unsustainable rate.

16. C. Length of School Day Current length of school days
(Monday thru Thursday)
Elementary Schools 6 hrs. 20 min.
6-7 Grade Schools 6 hrs. 40 min.
8-9 Grade Schools 6 hrs. 45 min.
High Schools 6 hrs. 45 min.

17. D. School Locations
Schools in larger population centers reduces the need for busing.
For example: North Cache, whose school boundary is the entire north end of the valley, is located in the 4th largest community in the north, requiring us to bus students from 3 larger communities to the smaller community.

18. (d.) Bus Student Percentages
School
Total Students
Students in walk boundary
*Current Bus Students
% Bused
Birch Creek
590 90
449 76
Canyon
529
231
246 46
Greenville
556
255
259
Heritage
500
186
279 55
Lewiston
513 72
434 84
Lincoln
433
237
157 36
Mountain Side
496
110
356 71
Millville
428
188
201
Nibley
343
332
North Park
539
144
338 62
Park
306
211 73 23
Providence
535
266
230 42
River Heights
474
181
254 53
Summit
471
219
210 44
Sunrise
479
442
Wellsville
367
172
168 45
Cedar Ridge
651 85
548
Spring Creek
690 91
572 82
White Pine
458 47
389
Willow Valley
636 48
576
North Cache
1124 75
1035 92
South Cache
1179
173
984 83
Mountain Crest
1619
329
503 31
Sky View
1533
439
423 27
Cache High
129 37

19. Increase in Bus Routes
2 years ago – Increase 1 Special Needs route in South
Last Year – Increase in 1 Special Needs route in North
This Year – Increase in 1 Regular Ed Route in South End
Next Year – Will need to increase 1 Regular Ed Route in South End

20. Passenger automobiles 0.86 (school bus is 172 times safer)
School Bus Safety Record According to the National Safety Council in 1996, here is a comparative chart showing the risk of death to a passenger in the following transportation modes. This study was conducted in the United States in 1994 on the transportation death rate per 100 million passenger miles traveled. ( Dr. Cal LeMon, Unreported Miracles)
Passenger automobiles
0.86 (school bus is 172 times safer)
Railroad passenger trains
0.04 (school bus is 8 times safer)
Scheduled airlines
Transit buses
0.02 (school bus is 4 times safer)
Intercity buses
School buses
Less than 0.005