Top District Fleets: Georgia District Holds Top Spot for Second Year

For the second year in a row, Gwinnett County Public Schools in Lawrenceville, Ga., reached the No. 1 spot of School Bus Fleet’s Top District Fleets survey, with 1,630 route buses, up from 1,543 last year.

The top five included four southeastern school districts, with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina coming in second with 928 route buses, Polk County Schools in Bartow, Fla., reaching fourth place with 525 route buses, and Cherokee County School District in Canton, Ga., at No. 5 with 404 route buses.

Other districts on SBF’s Top District Fleets list include:

• Albequerque (N.M.) Public Schools, No.7 on the list with 389 route buses.
• Tennessee’s Germantown Municipal School District coming in at No. 10 with 299 route buses.
• Washoe County School District in Reno, Nev., taking spot No. 15 with 221 route buses.
• Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Annapolis, Md., at No. 18 with 202 route buses.
• Deer Valley Unified School District in Glendale, Ariz., at No. 20 with 190 route buses.
• Kanawha County Schools in Charleston, W.V., coming in at No. 23 with 163 route buses.
• Fort Zumwalt School District R-II in O’Fallon, Mo., taking spot No. 24 with 132 route buses.
• North Penn School District in Lansdale, Penn., at No. 25 with 128 route buses.

We encourage you to send an email to info@schoolbusfleet.com with your district’s name, number of route buses, and contact info, and we’ll send you the survey when we’re compiling the Top Districts list next year. If you have about 150 or more school buses in route service (including any that are operated by contractors), you should be in the running.

RANKING	DISTRICT	TOTAL BUSES	ROUTE BUSES	CONTRACTOR BUSES	STUDENTS TRANSPORTED	ANNUAL ROUTE MILEAGE
1	Gwinnett County Public Schools (Lawrenceville, Ga.)	1,968	1,630	0	128,000	23,000,000
2	Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (Charlotte, N.C.)	1,208	928	0	105,130	22,000,000
3	Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (Houston, Texas)	1,250	639	0	83,833	6,500,000
4	Polk County Public Schools (Bartow, Fla.)	645	525	6	50,000	9,400,000
5	Cherokee County School District (Canton, Ga.)	482	404	0	28,475	4,800,000
6	Greenville County School District (Greenville, S.C.)	550	400	0	27,500	7,200,000
7	Albuquerque Public Schools (Albuquerque, N.M.)	434	389	139	39,145	5,236,226
8	Austin Independent School District (Austin, Texas)	545	345	0	22,000	6,000,000
9	Denver Public Schools (Denver, Colo.)	400	325	0	50,000	2,500,000
10	Germantown Municipal School District (Germantown, Tenn.)	373	299	373	23,400	5,171,800
11	St. Lucie Public Schools (Port St. Lucie, Fla.)	389	281	0	20,102	6,200,000
12	Northwest Regional Education Service District (Hillsboro, Ore.)	328	257	0	22,946	2,450,000
13	Stafford County Public Schools (Stafford, Va.)	270	255	0	26,000	2,337,000
14	Lake County District Schools (Tavares, Fla.)	300	239	0	18,803	5,400,000
15	Washoe County School District (Reno, Nev.)	370	221	0	18,000	3,727,228
16	Bossier Parish Schools (Benton, La.)	294	216	0	13,500	2,400,000
17	Sumner County Schools (Gallatin, Tenn.)	235	210	0	20,000	2,350,000
18	Anne Arundel County Public Schools (Annapolis, Md.)	263	202	246	18,000	4,000,000
19	Spring Independent School District (Spring, Texas)	262	200	0	14,000	2,500,000
20	Deer Valley Unified School District (Glendale, Ariz.)	220	190	0	3,500	1,000,000
21	Mansfield Independent School District (Mansfield, Texas)	298	180	0	14,000	2,900,000
22	Collierville Schools (Collierville, Tenn.)	190	170	170	12,000	1,000,000
23	Kanawha County Schools (Charleston, W.V.)	200	163	0	21,234	3,010,500
24	Fort Zumwalt School District R-II (O'Fallon, Mo.)	171	132	0	12,253	1,000,000
25	North Penn School District (Lansdale, Penn.)	190	128	60	13,000	700,000