Safe, Flexible Transportation for McKinney-Vento and Foster Care
HopSkipDrive facilitates reliable transportation for students experiencing homelessness and youth in foster care so they can stay in their school of origin and get to school quickly after relocating, protecting their attendance and your compliance record. All with just six hours’ notice.
Student Transportation, When and Where You Need It
Why wait three to five days to get a student routed with other vendors when HopSkipDrive rides can start the next day?
Transparency and Ease
Our web-based system gives Ride Organizers complete, real-time visibility. Booking and managing rides is easy, and in your control. Schedule rides and change addresses in RideIQ in minutes not days, so students never have to miss a day of school.
Cost Efficiency
Driver supply increases and decreases with your needs. You only pay for what you need.
Rapid Response Time
When a child moves placements abruptly, we can arrange a ride within hours. New rides can be scheduled with as little as six hours’ notice, and location changes for existing rides can be made within two hours’ of the ride’s start time.
Safety
Our Safe Ride Support® team and Safe Ride Technology™ provide oversight of every ride. Our enhanced proactive alert system automatically detects and flags critical events.
Flexibility
Our nimble, flexible model enables us to respond quickly to the needs of highly mobile youth. We help drivers provide safe, flexible, reliable, and transparent transportation with the fastest turnaround in the industry.
The CareDriver Difference
CareDrivers are parents, grandparents, babysitters, nurses, former teachers, and more, reporting an average of over 15 years of caregiving experience.
Effortless Ride Management for Vulnerable Students
Set up a student’s rides for the whole year in under five minutes, with full visibility into every trip, CareDriver, and compliance detail.
Easy Address Changes
When a student moves, Find & Replace updates the address across all of their rides in a few clicks, with no interruption in transportation.
Shared Billing
Shared Billing lets districts easily split the fare for riders who live outside their district.
Rider Notes
Structured Rider Notes capture each student’s preferences and needs, applying them automatically to every ride so each CareDriver delivers the same consistent experience.
Ride Transparency
RideIQ gives your team real-time visibility into every ride, and Track My Ride texts riders a live tracking link. All we need is the rider’s phone number; no app download needed.
The Leader in Safe, Fast, and Simple Supplemental Student Transportation
We partner with school districts to solve the hardest transportation problems and get every student to school safely.
14K+
Schools Helped
5M+
Rides Completed
130M+
Safe Miles Driven
Paving the Way to a Safer Future for Students in Need
For students experiencing homelessness or in foster care, consistent transportation supports their whole day. We pair experienced CareDrivers with real-time monitoring to support safe, reliable, and dignified rides.
Experienced and Compassionate Drivers
CareDrivers are highly vetted caregivers who bring real empathy and experience to the role. They receive education developed by nationally recognized child development experts on trauma-informed care, supporting neurodivergent riders, and de-escalation.
Safety Every Step of the Way
We are proactive, not reactive. Our Safe Ride Technology™ combines over 50 products and features woven in before, during, and after the ride with our Safe Ride Support® team, providing oversight of every ride.
In Their Own Words
“Not only does HopSkipDrive help reduce the district’s overall transportation costs, but offering this service to students with specialized transportation needs shortens commute times — meaning less time in transit and more time learning.”
Klein Independent School District
—Leigh Cook, Director of Federal Programs and Academic Compliance
“HopSkipDrive has regularly led the industry in its use of innovative technology to meet students and schools where they are. We know students with disabilities often thrive in educational settings where consistent and predictable allies work with them to achieve their goals, and [HopSkipDrive’s] enhanced services will enable that more than ever.”
Bellflower Unified School District
—Precious Young, Director of Special Education
“Having HopSkipDrive as an option helps keep things in compliance with state and federal regulations. It also really helps students who struggle using the school bus.”
Spokane Public School District
—Dani Galvez, Transportation Specialist