Transportation

Bus registration for the 2023-2024 school year opens on Tuesday, April 4 at 8am. The Transportation Forms page will become available at that time.

The Needham Public Schools Transportation Program provides transportation services to and from school, as well as fee-based extracurricular services to student groups and Town-wide programs.  

Yellow bus service is provided free of charge to Needham resident students in Grades K-6 who reside more than two (2.0) miles from school, and to Boston resident students who participate in the METCO Program.  Children in Grades K-6 who live two or fewer miles from school and all children in Grades 7-12  may pay a fee to ride the school bus, annually.  Financial assistance is available for families who qualify under income guidelines, and children eligible for free/reduced lunch do not pay a fee. Click these links to register for the bus or apply for financial assistance.  If you are a Boston resident student, click the link for METCO Program Transportation for more information about the bus.

Transportation also is provided to special education students PreK-12, who have transportation assigned as a related service in their Individualized Education Plan, as well as to homeless, group home and other students.  For more information on how to qualify for special services transportation click the link for Special Education Transportation.

Finally, the program offers an after-school late bus for middle school students  as well as charter transportation for field trips and other extra-curricular events during the school day, as well as transportation to after-school athletic activities.   To find out more about signing up for the after-school late bus click the Late Buses link.  To charter a bus for a field trip or extracurricular activity, click the link for Extracurricular Transportation.


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Office located at:
28 Glen Gary Rd
Needham, MA. 02492
Hours:  8am-4pm M-F

Shane Marchand
Director of Transportation
[email protected]
781-455-0400 x11234

Diana Baccari
Transportation Secretary
[email protected]
781-455-0400 x11242


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