Please review this information before you apply.
(Note: If you require a bus pass for the remainder of this school year, please use the 2020-2021 application and indicate in the comments section "Application for remainder of 2019-2020")
To ensure your child will have access to the bus for the first day of school (Monday August 31st, 2020), bus pass applications must be received by July 1st, 2020.
Any applications received after this date will not be included in the routing process and may not be processed in time for the first day of school. Please register prior
to August 1st to ensure your child may ride the bus on the first day of school.
Payment or payment arrangement must be received no later than 3 p.m.,Wednesday September 30th, 2020, with payment in full by December 1st, 2020.
If your child does not have a valid bus pass for the 2020-2021 school year, he/she will NOT be able to board the bus.
- Students requesting transportation after August 1st of any given year must register by completing this application form and submitting it to the Transportation Department.
Students will only be permitted to ride once their application is received at the Transportation office and has been processed. You will receive email notification of your child's start date on the bus once the application has been processed.
- Students must live outside the school’s walk boundary to qualify for a bus pass.
Bus passes are issued to students traveling between home and school and between school and ONE sitter/daycare ONLY.
- Passes are non-transferable and must always be presented to the driver and scanned in order to board the school bus.
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All transportation changes must be processed through the Parent Portal under the Parent/ online forms and request tab. In online forms and request tab in the Parent tab there is a section called Online
forms and requests. Please use the form that meets your needs.
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No changes will be accepted over the phone.
- Each eligible student who has submitted an application will be issued one personalized bus pass if they are not a current pass holder (all passes must be returned, if service is terminated midyear).
Please keep the physical bus pass card year to year and once payment or payment arrangement for the school year as well as any previous outstanding fees have been made, the bus pass will be activated for the new school year.
- If your son/daughter needs any specialized supports to ride the bus (wheelchair, etc) please use the comments field to indicate your child's requirements.
- Please familiarize yourself and your child with the bus safety information.
- Transportation fees will be refunded, only upon return of the student bus pass to the Transportation Department. Fees may be refunded for full months remaining in the school year, not for a portion of a month.
No refunds after January 31st of any school year.
- Apply below.
Transportation information is available at 780-459-7711 or www.gsacrd.ab.ca.
If at any time you wish to cancel the busing for your child. Please login to the Parent Portal and submit the bus cancellation form. Please note no verbal cancellations or requests will be accepted.
Please note that fees will not be adjusted without the Bus Cancellation form being submitted and the bus pass being returned to the transportation department, even if your child has never ridden the bus.
Full months remaining in the school year may be refunded however, NO refunds will be processed after January 31st. of any given school year.