K-12 School Transportation Rollover Process: Part 1 – Pre-Rollover Guide

Don’t Just Roll Over Your Routes — Transform Them

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For school transportation departments, the transition between school years is one of the most demanding periods of the calendar. Between advancing students, reassigning schools, and adjusting bus schedules, rollover can quickly become a source of stress and costly errors. Especially so when it’s treated as a last-minute task rather than a strategic process.

The truth is, rollover doesn’t have to be painful. With the right preparation, it can actually become an opportunity to optimize your entire routing operation.

It all starts with your data. Before you touch a single route, cleaning up your student records — fixing ungeocoded addresses, removing withdrawn students, and resolving missing school or grade information — ensures your rollover builds on a solid foundation instead of compounding last year’s problems.

From there, confirming feeder school relationships and boundary settings is critical. Misaligned promotion logic can send students to the wrong schools in your system. As a result, your team faces hours of manual cleanup that no transportation team has time for.

Once your data is clean, the actual rollover process becomes far more manageable: advance students, clone your routes and transportation plans, remove graduated riders, and use automated tools like batch and auto-assign to handle the bulk of new placements. The key is reserving manual review for the cases that need it most — special education students, out-of-boundary transfers, and new addresses.

We’ve put together a step-by-step pre-rollover guide that covers all of this and more, including the tools that can make the process faster and more accurate.

Download the free Pre-Rollover Guide and give your transportation team the head start it deserves this year.

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