FOR K-12 SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Every kid.
Home safe.
Kidaboard tracks every boarding and exit on every bus - quietly, automatically, instantly. Parents know. Drivers scan. Administrators see the whole district.
Right now, school bus
transportation runs on paper.
A kindergartener gets on the wrong bus. A parent is on hold with dispatch while drivers are radioed one by one. A transportation director can't produce a simple audit trail for a worried family.
Kidaboard ends the guesswork - a single, unified record of every boarding and exit, built for districts that need proof, not promises.
Three parts.
No training required.
The tag
Every student wears a passive NFC tag - a wristband, backpack tag, or school-issued ID. No phone. No app. No charging.
The tap
Drivers tap each student on as they board and off as they leave. Works offline by design; syncs the instant signal returns.
The update
Parents get a notification the instant their child is on or off. Admins see the whole district, live, from one screen.
A roster you can tap through with one hand.
No menus. No syncing buttons. Drivers see only the students on today's route, in the order they'll board. Missed scans are flagged at the end of the route , not three days later at the transportation office.
The answer before the question.
Parents know instantly - their child boarded, their child got off, their child was missed. No calls to dispatch. No anxious waiting. Just a quiet, consistent source of truth.
One platform.
Three experiences.
Peace of mind, built in.
- Live on-bus / off-bus status for every child
- Instant notifications when kids board and exit
- Heads-up for missed scans, wrong stops, no-shows
A tool that stays out of the way.
- Pick today's route in two taps, even as a sub
- Works offline through dead zones
- Surfaces missed students before the route ends
District-wide visibility, one dashboard.
- Live view of every bus across every school
- Complete audit trail for parent escalations
- Guardian approvals, roster imports, role management
Privacy and reliability
aren't features. They're the foundation.
FERPA & COPPA aligned.
Student-data schema designed for US public-school privacy law from day one. Not a retrofit.
Offline-first by design.
Buses go through dead zones. Kidaboard doesn't. Drivers keep working; data syncs the moment signal returns.
Multi-tenant from day one.
Every record is scoped to a district. Cross-district access is architecturally impossible.
Immutable event log.
Check-ins cannot be edited after the fact. What happened is what happened - in the record forever.
Role-based access.
Guardians see only their own children. Drivers see only their route. Admins see only their district.
US-hosted data.
Your district's data stays in US regions. Custom residency available for state procurement requirements.
Bring Kidaboard
to your district.
We partner with a limited number of pilot districts each semester. Hardware, software, and parent onboarding included.