2024-25 Bus Service
School bus companies across the nation – including H-F’s contracted bus
companies – are still experiencing a shortage of bus drivers. As a result, some H-F routes have been reconfigured.
BEFORE VIEWING BUS ROUTES, PLEASE READ Important School Bus FAQs below. If you need help locating intersections and streets, click here for a Google Map of the area.
Special Instructions
Freshmen and Transfer Students for First Day
Welcome Vikings!
There will be a special set of bus routes for freshmen and transfer students for the first day. Please follow the directions below to obtain your bus route information for this day.
FINDING YOUR BUS ROUTE
- Referencing your student ID, you will locate your bus route number that will be located in the area circled in red in the example below. HF Students can find their H-F Virtual ID under “My Virtual ID” in the InfoDynamics app at infos.hf233.org
- If there is an ‘NA’ in this field, it means that the student is a walker to school.
- If the field is blank please contact Ms. Candice Hall at (708) 335-5520 for assistance.
FINDING YOUR BUS STOP
- Select the FIRST DAY ROUTES FOR FRESHMEN & TRANSFER STUDENTS link. All students will be using FIRST PERIOD ROUTES this day.
- Using the example below, you will:
- Find your city
- Find the bus route number on your ID (THIS WILL BE THE SAME BUS ROUTE YOU WILL TAKE HOME AFTER SCHOOL). If your bus route/stop has a (*) next to it, please be sure to read the notes associated.
- Locate the closest bus stop to your residence.
- View the bus pickup time (PLEASE ARRIVE 5 minutes before)
AFTER SCHOOL
All buses line up at the semi-circle drive of the South Building (DOOR # 1). The buses typically line up in numeric order (Routes 1 – 21) in double lines. Staff will be outside to assist with the whereabouts of the school bus.
DAILY BUS ROUTES
For bus route information for the remainder of the school year, please revisit our transportation webpage at https://hfhighschool.org/resources/buses and click the LOCATING YOUR BUS ROUTE & STOP and follow the instructions.
For questions, please contact Candice Hall at (708) 335-5520 or [email protected].
LATE BUSES
MORNING BUSES
If your bus has not arrived after 15 minutes of the bus pick up time, please contact Kickert School Bus Company at (708) 758-4740 or the HF Transportation Department at (708) 335-5520.
When the district is made aware of bus routes that will be late arriving to school from the bus company, notification will be sent to parents via phone, text and/or email. Students will not be penalized with a tardy for late buses.
AFTER SCHOOL BUSES
There will be instances where buses will be late arriving to HF after school. For convenience, we have TV monitors at the following locations, where students may look up the estimated time of arrival for their school bus:
- SOUTH BUILDING - SECURITY DESK
- SOUTH BUILDING - CAFETERIA
- SOUTH BUILDING - OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY
A bus will always be provided to transport students home. If the delay will be significant, we will provide students a pass to board the 4:00 PM Activity / Athletic buses during the regular school year. They will wait in the Library until 4:00 PM. These particular bus routes load students at the South Building (DOOR # 12) & North Building (Atrium).
GENERAL SCHOOL BUS INFORMATION
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Bus Regulations
VIOLATIONS OF THE RULES BELOW MAY RESULT IN THE SUSPENSION OF BUS TRANSPORTATION OR SUSPENSION OR EXPULSION FROM SCHOOL.
Adequate bus transportation is available for the students. A primary concern in this regard is for the safety of the student. With this in mind, the following rules have been adopted:
- Students without a valid H-F I.D. card cannot ride the bus. Students shall present their I.D. card when they board the bus. Any I.D. mutilated or defaced so that information thereon is not clear must be replaced at the expense of the student. I.D. cards are not transferable. A student must surrender his I.D. card upon request of a driver.
- Students must load/unload the bus at the stop designated for their area and show respect for private property in the area.
- Students are to be at the bus stop on time. If for some reason a bus does not come or if a student misses the bus, it is the responsibility of the student to get to school.
- At dismissal time, students are responsible for being on their bus at the designated departure time.
- Smoking, striking of matches or lighting cigarette lighters, scuffling, littering (in or out of the bus), using profane or abusive language, or bringing pets or objects which may prove hazardous are not permitted.
- Bus drivers are in complete charge of the buses, and students are expected to comply with their requests. Drivers are not permitted to remove students from the bus between destination points because of student misconduct.
- Any damages caused by students to buses must be paid for by the students involved. Transcripts and graduation may be contingent on receipt of payment.
- Students should not put their heads or arms out of bus windows or throw objects from bus windows. No windows shall be lowered below the safety mark indicated on the bus.
- All students must be seated and are not permitted to change seats while the bus is in motion or to annoy riders on the bus.
- Students are not to push or crowd when loading; they are to be courteous to fellow passengers, allowing front row students to disembark first.
- Students are to exit only by the front door. The rear door is for emergency use only.