Guardian Route is an all-in-one platform for K-12 school transportation. It combines route optimization, live GPS bus tracking, parent communication, driver safety scoring, student attendance, field trips, and cost analytics in one system — instead of stitching together separate vendors.
Most districts and contractors are live within a few weeks. Guardian Route imports your existing student and route data, auto-generates routes with smart import and optimization, and lets you review everything before publishing.
Pricing scales with your fleet size and the features you need, and is designed to come in well below legacy enterprise suites. Request a demo and we will put together a quote tailored to your operation.
Yes. Guardian Route supports OneRoster (1.1 and 1.2) for automatic student roster sync, plus per-school SFTP ingestion and CSV/Excel import for SIS platforms that export files.
Yes. Student transportation data is treated as an educational record under FERPA. Guardian Route enforces row-level data isolation between districts, encrypts data in transit and at rest, supports multi-factor authentication for staff, and keeps an audit trail of administrative actions.
Yes. Guardian Route imports your existing students, stops, and routes so you can move without rebuilding from scratch. See our comparison pages for how it stacks up against specific products.
Yes. Guardian Route is multi-tenant, so a contractor can run routes for multiple districts from one account, with isolated data per district. See the bus-contractor page for details.
Yes. Native parent apps (iOS and Android) show the live bus location and ETA, with push notifications when the bus is approaching, has arrived, or is running late. There are also driver and school-office apps.
No. Guardian Route integrates with vehicle telematics such as Samsara for live positions, so you can keep the tracking hardware you already use.
Yes. The eligibility engine handles IEP transportation needs, hazard busing, and McKinney-Vento school-of-origin transport, with the routing constraints those programs require.
We'll build a demo using real routes from your district — so you can see exactly how Guardian Route fits your operation before signing anything.
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