Last Year's Results: Driver Shortage Remains No. 1 Challenge for Special-Needs Transportation [2025 Survey Report]
Your Insights Needed: 2026 Special Needs Survey Now Open
Help shape the 2026 state of Special-Needs Transportation report! School district and contractor leaders — share your notes on ridership, equipment, and staffing by Dec. 31, 2025.
November 11, 2025
If you transport special-needs students, we want to hear from you! Please fill out our survey by the end of 2025.
Photo: Florence Unified School District/School Bus Fleet
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What’s changing in special-needs student transportation for 2026? What new challenges and successes are emerging as we head into 2026? We're ready to explore topics like driver pay, student ridership, mainstreaming, and special-needs bus equipment.
Please weigh in for School Bus Fleet's annual report! We want to know how many special-needs buses you operate, how many riders have special needs, if you've seen an increase in special-needs transportation or not, and more. The answers you give us will be compiled into a special feature that presents the current state of K-12 special-needs transportation, and represents crucial industry benchmarking data.
School district admins and bus contractors, we need your input!
Responses are due by Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025.
All responses will be compiled into a report that will appear online and in our February 2026 print magazine. All answers remain confidential; the feature will report results in total and average across all responses.
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