Canadian K-12 Enrollment / Transportation Data
2004-05 School Year

Editorial Note About Data Collection

Data presented here was reported in the December 2005 edition of theSchool Transportation News Buyers Guide. The Guide is an directory of industry information published annually in December.

Transportation and enrollment data is supplied to the magazine by the pupil transportation section of the provincial department of education, though occasionally pupil transportation resides in some other ministry of provincial government. There are also provinces that do not have a central pupil transportation office; data from these provinces may not be available. Transportation data is self reported and unaudited. It is based on data collected by the province or other organizations such as reimbursement formulas by which provincial governments reimburse school boards and school bus contractors for transportatation service to public, private and parochial schools.

Column 5 shows the average number of yellow school buses operating, route and spare, in the fleet in the province on a given day during the school year reported. These data do not include public mass transit vehicles that provide student transportation, either regular route or charter.

Provinces may define the cost of pupil transportation and the counting of student rides differently, therefore, caution should be exercised when seeking to compare provinces as the varying methodologies and differing reporting periods simply do not allow precise comparison.