The Kaipaki School bus.
Welcome to the Kaipaki School Bus website. Here you can find everything you need to know about our school bus service.
Routes and times
Stops and times for the town run and the rural route.
Live tracker
See where the bus is right now on the live map.
Contact
Questions or comments about the bus? Get in touch with the school office.
About the service
How our bus is funded
The school is part of the Ministry of Education's Direct Resourcing funding programme, which works like this:
- The Ministry takes our student bus lists from the school's student management system and identifies all of the eligible students.
- Eligible students are those who live more than 3.2km from school and attend their nearest appropriate school.
- The Ministry calculates the funding based on the number of eligible students and pays it to the school.
- With the funding in hand, the school controls the bus routes, within some limits set by the Ministry.
- The Board can decide to carry students who live too close to school or who don't attend their closest school.
- The Board decides on bus stops and sets the rules and procedures that parents and students must follow to use the service.