School Transport

You can contact the School transport Service number for more information and to make an application.

School transport may be applied for:

• preschoolers with more than 5 km to school, or when the road is dangerous (application for accompanying allowance)
• pupils on grades 1–3 with more than 3 km to school
• pupils on grades 4–6 with more than 5 km to school
• pupils who begin on grade 7 and have more than 5 km to school
• pupils on certain grades when the road is deemed dangerous for them (https://koululiitu.fi/public.php?kunta=753)
• other reasons, see school transport principles for more information

Information

If you need more information, please call the service number during the phone time or leave a message through My Services.

Transport Principles

Travel and Waiting Times

The maximum time for a pupil’s school journey including waiting times is not to exceed two and a half hours (2.5 h). For pupils who turn 13 and older at the beginning of the school year, the maximum time for school journey is three hours (3 h). Pupils waiting for their school transport are to be given an opportunity to take part in guided activities.

Additional Transports

When pupils in classes 1–6 have more than two (2) kilometres, and pupils in classes 7–9 more than three (3) kilometres to the nearest buss stop, they are to receive additional transport by taxi.

HSL Travel Card for School Children

Pupils entitled to receive school transport will get at travel card. The card is valid on school journeys for one school year at a time, upon condition that there are no changes in the pupil’s school, school journey or other information related to granting school transport. Pupils who have been granted right to school transport may collect their travel cards at a municipal service point. Please note that they need to show their KELA-card in order to receive the travel card.

Particular Transport Principles

Pupils with less than five (5) kilometres to school may be eligible to receive school transport on special grounds. Transport applications are to be made in writing, for one school year at a time.

Transport or transport allowance are granted on these grounds:

1. Long School Journey

Transport or allowance may be granted due to the length of the school journey, if the journey for pupils in preschool or grades 1–3 is over three (3) kilometres.

2. Health Reasons

Transport/allowance may be granted if the school journey is determined to be too straining or difficult for the pupil. In these cases, an expert opinion written by a doctor or a psychologist must always be attached to the application form.

3. Dangerous School Road

For a closer look on the map, click on this link: https://koululiitu.fi/public.php?kunta=753

All pupils on grades 0–9 whose school journey runs along one or more of the roads shown in the map will be granted transport or allowance at the guardians’ request, regardless of the journey’s length. However, crossing one of the roads in the maps is not considered grounds for granting transport. In cases where a pupil on grade 1 has less than 3 km to school and the benefit is granted on the grounds of the road being dangerous for first-graders, the benefit will cease when the pupil transfers to grade 2.

Pupils in pre-primary or basic education are entitled to free school transport organised by the municipality if

• the distance to school is over five kilometres one way or
• the journey otherwise is too difficult, strenuous or dangerous in view of the pupil’s age or circumstances.

The daily travel to school and back home may take at most two and a half hours including any waiting time, and for pupils aged 13 or over, three hours.

An alternative to free transport is a subsidy granted to the parents for transporting and accompanying the pupil.