About NPSSTS
Nipissing-Parry Sound Student Transportation Services (NPSSTS) is a transportation consortium that plans and coordinates safe, efficient home-to-school busing on behalf of our member school boards across the Nipissing and Parry Sound districts. Established guidelines for service levels and transportation eligibility are applied uniformly to students of all the member boards.
What We Do
The NPSSTS consortium was created in 2001 and incorporated in 2003. The Ontario Ministry of Education has since mandated that student transportation be coordinated through consortia, rather than through individual school boards, as a method of streamlining operations.
Plan Routes
We design and manage bus routes and stops that serve every eligible student.
Coordinate Operators
We contract with local bus operators and hold them to safety and service standards.
Champion Safety
We deliver safety programs and support drivers, schools and families.
Deliver Value
By combining resources across boards, we provide better service at a lower cost.
Interesting Facts
We are available to families, schools, and operators all year (including during the summer).
We service
- four local school boards;
- 71 schools;
- approximately 18,700 students, including approximately 12,000 who are transported daily through the NPSSTS;
- the vast geographic area of the Districts of Nipissing and Parry Sound (East and West), which stretches from West Nipissing to Mattawa, and from Temagami through to Novar and MacTier, including North Bay and all towns and villages in between!
We have
- over 10 operators that work with NPSSTS to provide student transportation via school bus, van, taxi, and city transit;
- over 15 transfer locations;
- over 400 routes covering nearly 850 runs and more than 46,000 kilometres daily.
We support
- over 80 licensed child care facilities;
- local service agencies such as the Children’s Aid Society, Hands TheFamilyHelpNetwork.ca, Community Living, etc.
Our Member School Boards
NPSSTS coordinates transportation on behalf of four local boards.