About our Organization

NPSSTS stands for Nipissing-Parry Sound Student Transportation Services. We are a consortium governed by a Board of Directors made up of a representative from each of our four local member school boards (Near North District School Board, Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, and Conseil scolaire catholique Franco-Nord). We arrange transportation services for students of these boards and apply any harmonized guidelines for the provision of services to all students.

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.

We are not a transportation operator. Our role is to manage and coordinate transportation services for our member boards. In this role, we maintain transportation-related student data for all students of all of the boards we service (approximately 17,000 student records), arrange transportation based on that data (including planning the necessary routes), supply route descriptions including student lists to the operators, and coordinate payment for services provided.

In total, approximately 11,500 students are transported daily using approximately 850 routes travelling across nearly 46,000 km. We also monitor all safety issues that relate to student transportation, including school bus safety training and programs, and facilitate the resolution of complaints related to student transportation.