Transportation
The Transportation Department of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District is proud to serve you.
We start and end your child’s day by providing safe and secure transportation from home to school and school to home. We also provide transportation for field trips, athletic events, and all other activities related to your child’s education.
Our school bus drivers and mechanics are highly trained and all are included in the background check and drug testing programs as required by the State of Ohio. Please be assured that we will do everything possible, while adhering to State of Ohio and School Board Policies, to resolve your problems and issues in a timely manner.
Eligibility
Students enrolled in the CH-UH City School District are eligible for bus transportation according to the following guidelines:
Elementary School: Students must live one mile or more from their home school.
Middle School: Students must live two miles or more from their home school.
Bus transportation is not provided for high school students. Many high school students take the public RTA bus to school. Students can purchase bus tickets ($1.75/ride) at Heights High, which is on the Cedar Road #32 (east/west) route and the Lee Road #40 (north/south) route. Visit RideRTA.com to plan a trip from any address to Heights High.
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KEEPING THE BUSES MOVING
Riding the school bus is a privilege. Your cooperation will be needed to ensure a safe and pleasant ride for your student to and from school. Any student choosing to misbehave could be denied the privilege of riding the school bus.
Students should be at their assigned bus stop five (5) minutes before the scheduled pick up time. Drivers are not required to wait for tardy students, because it will make the balance of the route late. We have many students living on major roads, and waiting would cause a traffic hazard.
Students are prohibited from eating, littering, chewing gum, and drinking anything on school buses. Smoking, consuming alcoholic beverages, and fighting on school buses will cause immediate termination of bus riding privileges.
Dogs and other animals, glass jars, and things not stored comfortably on a bus seat or that will protrude into the aisle are illegal to transport.
When students are dismissed from school they are to go promptly to their school bus. Drivers are instructed to depart the school seven (7) minutes after dismissal.
Drivers shall carry a route schedule on the bus and attempt to conform to it as closely as possible considering traffic conditions, road conditions, and safety considerations.
Drivers shall assign seats to pupils on the school bus.
Drivers are permitted, by law, to use reasonable force and restraint in maintaining order and control in emergency situations.
The transportation of passengers other than the students assigned to the trip is not permitted.
Supervisor of Transportation
Curtis Washington
c_washington@chuh.org
216-320-2075
Vanessa Bantum
Routing Specialist
v_bantum@chuh.org
216-320-2073
Steve Egner
Lead Mechanic
s_egner@chuh.org
216-320-2041
Anthony Weatherholt
Mechanic
a_weatherholt@chuh.org
216-320-2041
Steve Smithingell
Mechanic
s_smithingell@chuh.org
216-320-2041