Brown-Barge Middle School

Accommodation requests are required to secure a seat on any magnet school bus, or to request bus transportation for any student who wishes to travel between anyplace other than their primary FOCUS address and their residentially-zoned school.

 

Alternative transportation plans should be made and ASSUMED NECESSARY until confirmed otherwise.

• All accommodations are granted on a space-available, first-come-first-served basis.
• Accommodations must be requested along existing bus routes, and new bus stops cannot be created for accommodations.
• Requests must be resubmitted each year.
• Be sure to select the correct school year on your request. Requests that select the 2024-2025 school year will NOT be processed for the 2025-2026 school year.
• "Sibling Preference" aims to help ensure siblings within the same household are all transported together, IF THEY ATTEND THE SAME SCHOOL.
• After submitting your request, you will receive an auto-generated email copy of your request, sent to the email address you give on the request form. This is your "confirmation of receipt."
• Only requests submitted between February and July 1 of the current year will be considered for approval in time for the start of the next school year.
• Accommodations for the next school year do not start being processed until July. Regardless of when you submit your request, you will not get an "answer" about 2025-2026 accommodations until July 2025.
• Additional conditions governing this service are articulated in School Board Rules 6.04(6) and (7).

 

Magnet School Accommodations (Cook Elem, Brown Barge Middle, West Florida High, and PHS I.B. students who live outside the PHS attendance zone)

• Existing riders are requested to submit a new request each year, to confirm your desire to continue riding.
• Changing schools (such as moving from BBMS to WFHS) or changing trunk stop location selections will be treated as a completely new accommodation.
• Seats are granted on a space-available, first-come-first-served basis, regardless of any other factors except in cases where sibling preference is applicable. Students of District staff do not get preferential seating over non-staff students.
• Requests may be submitted for presumptive next-year magnet school students, even if you have not yet received a letter of acceptance. When the requests are processed over the summer, magnet enrollment will be verified prior to assigning any student to a bus.
• The form allows up to 3 trunk stop location selections, and those should be made in order of preference. Listing the same choice more than once is unnecessary.
• Students who are initially routed for their 2nd or 3rd choice trunk stop will remain on the waiting list for their 1st stop, even if they accept the seat on the 2nd or 3rd choice bus.
• Students who are waitlisted for bus seats will remain on the waitlist until/unless a seat becomes available on their preferred bus. This could happen at any time throughout the school year. Parents should check your email regularly to ensure you don't miss the opportunity to accept if a seat is offered for your student at a later date.
• Parents of magnet school bus riders are required to provide/arrange transportation for their student to & from the assigned trunk stop. Bus service is not provided between the students' homes and the magnet bus trunk stops.

 

Accommodations are granted on a space-available basis, and are processed in the order the requests are received.  Anyone requesting any sort of accommodation should also pre-plan an alternate method of transportation for the student, to be used in the event that your request cannot be granted or, in the case of magnet schools, is placed on a waitlist after the initial round of bus assignments has filled the available seats.

 

Please be sure to input your email address correctly on your request, as this will be where you will receive notifications regarding accommodations.  We begin processing accommodation requests in July, so please do not be concerned if you don't receive any immediate communications about your request.  As requests (and all other bus assignments) begin to be processed over the summer, your student's bus assignment will be available in the FOCUS parent portal (instructions for locating FOCUS transportation info can be found HERE).  

 

Questions regarding the accommodations process should be EMAILED to the appropriate Route Manager for the school your child will be attending.  A directory of contacts for our department can be found here: Transportation Directory

 

Links to both Courtesy Transportation Accommodation Request forms can be accessed on the Transportation Department's Accommodations Page.

 

Click HERE or the image below to view a slideshow with more information about transportation and magnet schools.