General Information:

• DV ISD covers 174 square miles
• DV ISD bus routes cover 6484 miles each day.
• DV ISD has 102 busses.
• The longest route is 110 miles and picks up the first child at 6:00am.
• We have 97 diesel buses in the fleet at this time, 78 busses have A/C. 
• DV ISD has a total of 141 vehicles, which must be maintained (busses, trucks, vans & suburbans).
• DV ISD has 54 regular bus routes and 15 special needs routes, plus TLC, JJAEP, Activity and UIL routes.
• There are a total of 115 employees in the transportation department.
• The average daily ridership is approximately 6733 students.

Training:

• Drivers-required to obtain a CDL license, must take 20-hour course in School Bus Safety and attend an 8-hour refresher class every 3 years as well as in-service training. Drivers must submit to annual physicals, Criminal background record check, pre-employment and random drug testing.
• Monitors- Criminal background check, pre-placement physical and drug test.  Twelve hour classroom training.

Student Safety:

• The most dangerous time for a student riding the school bus is the loading and unloading process. It is critical that students are visible to the driver and out of the bus danger zones when the bus is in motion. If students are crossing the street, they should move immediately out of the danger zone and proceed at least 15 feet in front of the bus and wait for the driver to signal them to cross. The transportation department provides annual classes to all elementary students to train them in these and other safety procedures. We also perform annual emergency evacuations with all routes.  .

SCHOOL BUS DANGER ZONES

Never enter the danger zone when the bus is in motion.