Need Bus Transportation?

ALL transportation requests must be made via Online Registration.

Parents must provide transportation until such time as the student is assigned to a bus route.

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Ride 360 App

Tyler ISD uses Ride 360, an app that allows a streamlined flow of communication for you when your child rides the bus. The app uses GPS data and contains your child's bus route information as they travel throughout the district.

Bus Request Denial Appeal
If you received a denial for bus services & would like to restate your case for an exception, please e-mail John Bagert, Director of Transportation, stating the specific reasons why you feel an exception should be granted. Those approved for an exception will not be provided transportation until after the first week of school.

***Please do not call the Transportation Department as we experience heavy call volumes & will not be able to consider exceptions via the telephone.

Tyler ISD provides bus transportation for eligible students. This video highlights proper bus conduct for our students. En Español

Bus Seat Safety
Due to the laws and liabilities associated with transporting small students, we do not transport Pre-K and Head Start students. Those students are 4 yrs. old or younger and require car seats that the buses do not have. After age 4, the seat belts provided in the buses are sufficient. Buses without passenger seat belts (pre-2018 model years) are grandfathered to the previous laws not requiring seat belts for students older than 4.

We will transport kindergarten students as long as they have an older sibling riding on the bus attending the same campus.

The only exceptions to this requirement will be special needs and McKinney-Vento students. Those are addressed on a case-by-case basis.

Department Overview

The mission of the Transportation Department is to provide safe, reliable and quality service in a caring environment for students, staff, and community through a well-trained, professional and positive staff that exceeds customers’ needs in the most cost effective manner.

Quick Links

Contacts/Phone Instructions

When dialing a number that includes an extension below, you must first dial 903.262.1000 & then the extension or you will not reach someone within Tyler ISD. You cannot dial 903.262.xxxx (whatever the extension is) directly. 

John Bagert
Director of Transportation
903.262.1135

Jim McDougal
Routing Coordinator
903.262.1134

Randy Burton
Shop Coordinator
903.262.1138

Jeri Noble
Payroll & Employee Records
903.262.1130

Rita Morris
Administrative Assistant
903.262.1324

Yolanda Flores
Bilingual Clerk
903.262.1049

Carolina Moctezuma
Bilingual Clerk
903.262.1000 x 3566

Billy Glasscock
Parts & Technician
903.262.1000 x 1139

Frank Hibbs
Team Leader/Special Needs/Routing
903.262.1000 x 3805

Amber Burt
Special Needs Router
903.262.1000 x 5713

Nick Nestor
Team Leader Routing
903.262.1102

Ron Dinoto
Team Leader Routing
903.262.1000 x 4501

Yvetta Henry
Specialist/Training
903.262.1321

Lucy Gonzalez
Specialist/Trip Scheduling
903.262.1000 x 4447

Alfonso Perez
Team Leader/Training
903.262.1000 x 3562

Robert Edwards
Shop Foreman
903.262.1000 x 1132

Charles Turner
Specialist/Student Management
903.262.1000 x 5160