New East Greenwich School Start Times, School Bus Routes Posted

EAST GREENWICH, RI—School is around the corner and the East Greenwich School District has posted the school bus schedule for the 2016-17 school year.

Among the many changes greeting students, parents and teachers this upcoming school year in East Greenwich is a later start time. All elementary schools will start at 8:50 a.m. and the school day now ends at 3:10 p.m.

At Cole Middle School and East Greenwich High School, the school day will be 8 a.m. to 2:25 p.m.

A FAQ answering common questions has been posted here.

There are also some changes at school bus stops as a result of the later start times. The district was required to move from a three- to a two-tier bus system with two runs each in the morning and afternoon instead of three.

"Bus stops are placed at centralized locations that can be safely accessed by a significant number of students to minimize the time, length, and mileage of the run. In order to ensure that riding times for each run are minimized, some stops were combined and/or eliminated," according to the FAQ.

The district has reviewed all bus stops with police and the safety team at Ocean State Transit, which operates buses for East Greenwich, and have been deemed safe.

The school transportation policy can be found here.

For more information about school start times, the entire ad hoc committee start time report can be found here.

The bus routes are posted on the school district's website as Excel documents. All times are tentative and could change after school begins.

Individual schools:

EGHS

Cole

Eldredge

Hanaford

Frenchtown

Meadowbrook

Our Lady of Mercy