Have a wonderful summer everyone! See you in the Fall. School starts Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Transportation

Transporting close to 1,200 students in the school district each day!

New Bus Changes and Requests

NOTE: The 24-25 school year Transportation Form is now closed. The 25-26 form will be replacing this form on July 1, 2025.

Filling in your data on the aforementioned linked form is the quickest way for the district to address your needs.

** If you need to make a change to transportation because of a recent household move or relocation, please contact the district central office at 207-935-2600. **

Please allow 5 business days to assign your child(ren) to the appropriate bus.

It's very important to understand that this window of time is necessary to allow IT to implement the change in our logistical software and to provide time for all the necessary impacted parties (transportation manager, bus drivers, teachers, principals, secretaries, administrative assistants and dismissal bus aides) responsible for your rider's safety to prepare for a successful implementation.

District Routes & Approximate Times

NOTE: District Route Times for the 2025-2026 will be published at least a week prior to the new school year.

If you do not see your stop on the list and you requested transportation after 8/22/2024 it might be that we did not receive the request in time to prepare as it takes 5 days to process and publish this list and the cut off was that date. If you requested after that date - someone will be in touch to let you know when we will be able to start transporting your student.

Please note that there are many factors that impact the published verses the actual arrival times detailed on this spreadsheet. Once your student(s) - over a week or two - falls into a rhythm, the set time becomes very predictable.

Links to sign up for Bus Notifications (Fryeburg Academy only)

Links to Remind Bus Notifications

Late Bus

Click here for the late bus calendar.

The school district provides 2 buses for late bus. These buses load then depart Molly Ockett School at 4:55 PM and travel to Fryeburg Academy. Departure time from FA is approximately 5:00 PM.

The route:

Route 5 - stops are New Suncook School / Hobbs Memorial Library / (West Lovell Rd/Rt 5, if requested) / Center Lovell Market / A.J's
Route 113 - stops are Grant's / Brownfield Denmark Elementary School / Jim Bob's

The late bus runs on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday (Not on early-release Wednesday's)

There is, however, an exception during holidays (which includes 3-day weekends):

A Monday holiday – There’s no late bus the Friday before a long weekend; and

There's no late bus a day prior to the start of a vacation. For example, Thanksgiving - on this holiday, there's no school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Since there's no school on Wednesday, there's no late bus on Tuesday. Therefore, during Thanksgiving week, Monday is the only late bus run. This rule is applied to all holidays and vacations.

Fryeburg Academy, sometimes, is not on the same academic schedule as MSAD #72. When FA is closed, such as during their winter break holiday - their vacation starts one week prior to the school district - no late bus services are provided.