My Ride K-12

Name: My Ride K-12
Rating: 4.5 (16544 reviews)
Author: Tyler Technologies, Inc

Never miss the bus again

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

17K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

#116
Education
Developer

Tyler Technologies, Inc
Language

EN
+ 8 More
Size

135.1
MB

Easily find your student's bus route, receive real-time updates, and get notified about changes or delays*. The My Ride K-12 app is designed to help parents and students stay informed about their school transportation schedules. My Ride K-12 is a must-have app for any parent or student who hopes to never miss the bus again. Download today and experience hassle-free school transportation. *The availability of features is managed by your school district's transportation office. For questions about the My Ride K-12 app, please contact your school district.

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

17K Ratings

Great Application
Sep 17
CJSingh17
I love this app I can see where my child is and before my child gets on the bus I can see where the bus is at. I’m don’t have too much to fear due to me being friends with his bus driver and she’s been his bus driver for the last 5 years. The only thing I think maybe a glitch that needs to be smoothed out is it will freeze every now and then. If the bus is held up because of an accident or roadwork it won’t let you know that the bus will be late picking up your child only by the time stamps at the bottom saying when your bus will be there to pick your child up. That time isn’t correct majority of the time if the app freezes. It does let you know what bus number and if your child is coming home on a different bus or being picked up by a different bus due to the original bus driver might have done a trip for the school or is out personally.
Great Application
Sep 17
CJSingh17

I love this app I can see where my child is and before my child gets on the bus I can see where the bus is at. I’m don’t have too much to fear due to me being friends with his bus driver and she’s been his bus driver for the last 5 years. The only thing I think maybe a glitch that needs to be smoothed out is it will freeze every now and then. If the bus is held up because of an accident or roadwork it won’t let you know that the bus will be late picking up your child only by the time stamps at the bottom saying when your bus will be there to pick your child up. That time isn’t correct majority of the time if the app freezes. It does let you know what bus number and if your child is coming home on a different bus or being picked up by a different bus due to the original bus driver might have done a trip for the school or is out personally.
Awful, pointless
08/05/2024
brayandy
This app was advertised as realtime updates and notifications with the very useful ability of tracking the progress of my kids’ school bus. It failed miserably at each of those tasks. For instance, the app did not adjust the bus’s drop off time to reflect their school’s half day on their first day of school. Students were released from school at 10:30am, yet the app kept the time listed as a 3:00pm release. That seems like a simple (and crucial) “realtime update” to make. I also received zero notifications. Nothing when the bus left the school or got near us. (And again, nothing about the half day.) Finally, there’s the ability to track the progress of the bus — a remarkably useful tool — that, you guessed it, didn’t work. Instead of receiving the bus’s location when I selected “bus location” I was treated to a static map of my house and the school, which never once featured anything even resembling a bus let alone a moving location marker that could, I don’t know, tell me my kids’ “bus location.” This app is a total failure. In its present (useless) form I don’t see the point of it. It is simply a collection of erroneous, static times with no actual communication, no notifications, and no “bus location.” It’s an app that could of (should of) been an email — instead of wasting space on my phone.

Developer Response
We are sorry to hear this! Most of what you are saying needs to be updated by your district for it to work. For example, if an early dismissal is not entered into our system, we can't update the times, which means we have the wrong times to send notifications, and the wrong times to make the bus location available. It creates a domino effect of bad information that we cannot control. If you want to leave us feedback through the application, we'd be happy to work with you more to understand the specific issue that happened at your district and see how we can improve!
Awful, pointless
08/05/2024
brayandy

This app was advertised as realtime updates and notifications with the very useful ability of tracking the progress of my kids’ school bus. It failed miserably at each of those tasks. For instance, the app did not adjust the bus’s drop off time to reflect their school’s half day on their first day of school. Students were released from school at 10:30am, yet the app kept the time listed as a 3:00pm release. That seems like a simple (and crucial) “realtime update” to make. I also received zero notifications. Nothing when the bus left the school or got near us. (And again, nothing about the half day.) Finally, there’s the ability to track the progress of the bus — a remarkably useful tool — that, you guessed it, didn’t work. Instead of receiving the bus’s location when I selected “bus location” I was treated to a static map of my house and the school, which never once featured anything even resembling a bus let alone a moving location marker that could, I don’t know, tell me my kids’ “bus location.” This app is a total failure. In its present (useless) form I don’t see the point of it. It is simply a collection of erroneous, static times with no actual communication, no notifications, and no “bus location.” It’s an app that could of (should of) been an email — instead of wasting space on my phone.
Developer Response 08/08/2024
We are sorry to hear this! Most of what you are saying needs to be updated by your district for it to work. For example, if an early dismissal is not entered into our system, we can't update the times, which means we have the wrong times to send notifications, and the wrong times to make the bus location available. It creates a domino effect of bad information that we cannot control. If you want to leave us feedback through the application, we'd be happy to work with you more to understand the specific issue that happened at your district and see how we can improve!
Mediocre work
02/12/2024
Enzo1977
I hate to be so critical, but I’ve done some light app development and while the transition from the former app to this went smoothly, the functionality of the map view is poor.Yes, the bus location updates periodically (likely based on the signal availability for the bus to local cell sites). As the bus appears to approach my child’s bus stop/pickup location like any other user, I will zoom in to more precisely examine the location. The zoom in view will hold for ONLY until another update is received of the bus location. Once the bus location is received, the view zooms out to a bus icon the size of approximately over 3,500 ft. Keep in mind, a mile is just over 5,200 feet. To give you a sense of scale, I’ve checked on both an iPhone and an iPad, the view will zoom out after every location update to fit in approximately 5 miles of visible map from north to south. Oh, and the bus icon i mentioned? It’s 2/3 of a mile long. The icon of my house appears to be just over a half mile in size as well. Trust me, I’ve checked this based on intersections and landmarks visible on the app. I’m sorry, but when the map view every update is reset to a zoom of the bus taking up what is the equivalent of 9 to 10 city blocks, what’s the point? Great, you go to the trouble of calculating estimated arrival time. There is almost NO algorithm or formula, or any potential machine learning that is going to accurately predict the nuances of getting a child out the door. Some kids make the bus wait, some kids are waiting as the bus arrives. Some bus drivers let every single car waiting at an intersection pass before they ever attempt to take the right of way. Trying to predict the arrival time while appreciated, is less important than being able to accurately visualize the distance as represented on a map. Stop resetting the zoom view after every location update.

Developer Response
Update - This issue has been resolved in versions 1.2.1+. We are sorry again that this happened.Thank you for the feedback! We are aware of the zoom issue and have a fix coming out soon. We are sorry for the frustrations this may have caused. If you have more feedback or want to discuss any of the items you mentioned further, please use the feedback section in the app so we can get in touch!
Mediocre work
02/12/2024
Enzo1977

I hate to be so critical, but I’ve done some light app development and while the transition from the former app to this went smoothly, the functionality of the map view is poor.Yes, the bus location updates periodically (likely based on the signal availability for the bus to local cell sites). As the bus appears to approach my child’s bus stop/pickup location like any other user, I will zoom in to more precisely examine the location. The zoom in view will hold for ONLY until another update is received of the bus location. Once the bus location is received, the view zooms out to a bus icon the size of approximately over 3,500 ft. Keep in mind, a mile is just over 5,200 feet. To give you a sense of scale, I’ve checked on both an iPhone and an iPad, the view will zoom out after every location update to fit in approximately 5 miles of visible map from north to south. Oh, and the bus icon i mentioned? It’s 2/3 of a mile long. The icon of my house appears to be just over a half mile in size as well. Trust me, I’ve checked this based on intersections and landmarks visible on the app. I’m sorry, but when the map view every update is reset to a zoom of the bus taking up what is the equivalent of 9 to 10 city blocks, what’s the point? Great, you go to the trouble of calculating estimated arrival time. There is almost NO algorithm or formula, or any potential machine learning that is going to accurately predict the nuances of getting a child out the door. Some kids make the bus wait, some kids are waiting as the bus arrives. Some bus drivers let every single car waiting at an intersection pass before they ever attempt to take the right of way. Trying to predict the arrival time while appreciated, is less important than being able to accurately visualize the distance as represented on a map. Stop resetting the zoom view after every location update.
Developer Response 02/27/2024
Update - This issue has been resolved in versions 1.2.1+. We are sorry again that this happened.Thank you for the feedback! We are aware of the zoom issue and have a fix coming out soon. We are sorry for the frustrations this may have caused. If you have more feedback or want to discuss any of the items you mentioned further, please use the feedback section in the app so we can get in touch!
Updated review: This is helpful!
Apr 22
Yehcim
I am updating my prior review, and increasing the stars from 2 to 4. I find this app to be a very helpful tool. This app is no substitute for being prepared for the bus around its usual time. Don’t look at time estimates in the app. The app needs to be used as additional resource in preparing for bus arrival. It’s not to be used as sole determination of where the bus is. There will be days it shows incorrect info due to any number of factors. But, more often than not, it has been excellent for gauging the time needed to get out the door. ——————————-Initial review: Using the app has created more STRESS in the morning routine. Time estimates adjust dramatically making them useless. (It says 10 minutes late then suddenly it’s supposed to arrive at this exact minute. Then it switches to 10 min late again) The map updates in a choppy way. Son has missed the bus 3 times, thinking the route map was accurate or that the bus was where it shows. If district drivers change routine, they should update the route! We are better off doing the old fashioned thing of waiting outside for 10 minutes to eliminate this headache.

Developer Response
We are sorry to hear this. It sounds like their is a delay in the information we are getting from your transportation department. Please reach out to them for more information.
Updated review: This is helpful!
Apr 22
Yehcim

I am updating my prior review, and increasing the stars from 2 to 4. I find this app to be a very helpful tool. This app is no substitute for being prepared for the bus around its usual time. Don’t look at time estimates in the app. The app needs to be used as additional resource in preparing for bus arrival. It’s not to be used as sole determination of where the bus is. There will be days it shows incorrect info due to any number of factors. But, more often than not, it has been excellent for gauging the time needed to get out the door. ——————————-Initial review: Using the app has created more STRESS in the morning routine. Time estimates adjust dramatically making them useless. (It says 10 minutes late then suddenly it’s supposed to arrive at this exact minute. Then it switches to 10 min late again) The map updates in a choppy way. Son has missed the bus 3 times, thinking the route map was accurate or that the bus was where it shows. If district drivers change routine, they should update the route! We are better off doing the old fashioned thing of waiting outside for 10 minutes to eliminate this headache.
Developer Response 09/26/2025
We are sorry to hear this. It sounds like their is a delay in the information we are getting from your transportation department. Please reach out to them for more information.

What's Fixed - Shuttle runs now properly show early or late dismissals - After adding a student, if a student has no runs assigned they now still show in the list of students - The bus location page will now only show one vehicle (if available), instead of duplicating under certain conditions What's Changed - If no vehicle is available during the time of the run, a better message is displayed letting the user know that even though connected data might not be available - Performance improvements made to the overall system and ETA notifications (if enabled by your district)

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Information

Seller: Tyler Technologies
Size: 135.1 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Languages: English and 8 more

English, Amharic, French, Korean, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese
Age Rating: 4+

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