How much do u pay bus/train fare to your (catchmented) secondary a day/week?

[ampere]

...And how far away is it?

Sorry about the 'catchmented' but if you've chosen to send the DC 20 miles to another county to school it would invalidate these figures!

DS1 goes to secondary in Sept.

3 miles away
Bus
currently £1 a day/£5 a week BUT rising to £11 in Y8 as the council are removing the subsidy!!

anyone??!

Is it just under 3 miles ampere? I think you get transport paid if it's over 3 miles (if it's your catchment school).

The boys' school is 3.2 miles away. It costs £9 each per week on the buses, but we chose to go there. They could have walked to the local school (OMDB).

In the local town some students still have to travel a long way. Their bus pass costs £5.90 per week currently. Though for that they can use any local buses 7 days a week, so it gives them some independence.

They can cycle though if they want or walk.

Ours is free, and is well under 3 miles away -- but the criterion is '3 miles by the nearest safe walking route', I think, not just a straight 3 miles.

The next-nearest school is 5 miles away and has no transport at all from where we are.

Our secondary age DC have always had free school bus (over 3 miles), from years 7 to 11. Post 16 we have to pay (same bus!). It was £320 for this last school year. Any school out of catchment the parents pay full for transport.

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DD's school (about 2 miles away) has a school bus which costs £2.50 a day. The stagecoach service also goes to her school, so I give her £12 for a weekly Gloucester ticket and she can use that at weekends as well.

DS1 - about 5 miles. Free school bus.

When/if they go into the 6th form it is about £180 for a pass.

I wouldn't mind if my 17 year old could use his school bus pass on the service buses, but it's for the school bus only so if he stays behind for any reason he has to pay adult fare to get home on the service bus.

Our local secondary is about 3 1/2 miles away but the council reckon that a safe walking route makes it about 2.9miles, so no subsidy. This so called safe walking route involves walking through unlit wood and park type land with a huge open swamp/pond type thing, away from houses or road. Then a walk through the roughest area in town where bus and taxi drivers won't venture after dark. Bearing in mind that all winter it is dark here when kids are walking to and from school (especially if they have before or after school study groups/band practice/whatever) no parent in their right mind would allow their kids to walk.

So all the kids who need a bus here have to get 2 separate service buses, one into town and then one to the next village where the school is. Costs just under 3pounds per child per day. There are special megarider tickets but they actually cost more because the bus company charges full adult prices for these, they are not available for children. So 15pounds per child per week,

We are in Scotland, though, so the situation may be a bit different,

We pay about £5 per week. Not our catchment school but all the other local schools oversubscribed and authority won't pay for schools out of authority (we live in a border area so all schools are out of our authority!)

Don't really mind as can't drive and would need to get ticket anyway.

My daughter pays £2 each a day for my two granddaughters to get to the Grammar. [Buckinghamshire].