Lamar County Head Start

Bus services are available for all Head Start children.  Head Start and Pre-Kindergarten students are the only children who will be riding these buses.  A bus driver and an adult bus aide are assigned to each bus. Each bus is equipped with ZONAR.  This is a technologically advanced rider tracking system.  It allows us to find a bus and identify its riders while our students are being transported to any location.   

You must be able to put your child on the bus in the mornings. For morning pickup, please do not put your child on the bus if he/she is acting out, screaming, crying uncontrollably or physically ill. The bus driver and monitor cannot assume responsibility for your child under these circumstances.

Students, who ride the bus, must follow bus rules and safety guidenlines. This means staying in their seats, talking quietly, and keeping their hands and feet to themselves. Activities that create distractions for the bus driver will not be tolerated. Students who consistently display disruptive behavior on the bus, will be permanently suspended from bus privileges. This includes but is not limited to hitting other children or staff, running, cursing, yelling, spitting, will not stay in seat belt, fighting and crawling on vehicle floors.

if your child will be picked up by a daycare facility, please write the of childcare center on student iformation or change of status form, located in the front office.

P.M. Dismissal via School Bus

The school day ends at 2:30 p.m. We load school buses at aproximately 2:25 p.m. Someone on the student’s pick up list must be present at the bus stop to receive your child.

If there is someone there, who is not on the list, then the bus driver will not release the student. When no one is present at the bus stop , your child will be dropped off at Crockett Intermediate School at 655S. Collegiate ( in the front office).

You must get out of your car or come out of your house to the door of the bus to receive your child. The bus driver will not stop you are sitting in your car or standing in your door.

If your child is taken to crokett three or more, he/she will be assigned to parent pick-up to two weeks or removed from the bus indefinitely. Travel arrangements, for your child, MUST be made on or before 1:15 p.m.

Any student not pickeee up at Crockett by 3:00 p.m. or as soon as the bus reaches the campus, will be released to the custody of the PISD Police Department until they are able to locate parents/guardians.