A Message from our Transportation Department

Dear LMSD Families:

In this letter, I will be sharing important information and updates from our Transportation Department for the 2025-2026 school year.

What’s staying the same: PowerSchool Parent Portal

• The PowerSchool Parent Portal remains your primary source for the most up-to-date and accurate information about your student’s bus number, bus stop location and pickup and drop-off times.
• Transportation assignments for the 2025-2026 school year will be available in the PowerSchool Parent Portal after 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22, 2025.
• Please be sure to check the PowerSchool Parent Portal regularly for the first several weeks of the school year.
  • We often make route adjustments at the start of the year to increase efficiency. While we make every effort to notify families about these changes, we know emails can be accidentally missed or deleted. Checking the Portal regularly during the first weeks of school will ensure you have the correct information about your student’s transportation.

What’s New: The StopFinder App

LMSD’s Transportation Department is replacing the current BusStatus app with a new app called Stopfinder. Stopfinder is an all-in-one app where you will be able to:

• See your student’s bus schedule.
• Receive push notifications about bus delays or substitutions.
•  Create customized GeoAlerts to track when your student’s bus is approaching and/or departing their bus stop or school. 
• Track multiple students’ bus schedules, if your students ride different buses.
• Access bus information in multiple languages.

Important StopFinder Details:

• Only designated contacts listed in PowerSchool will have access to student transportation schedules in StopFinder.
• Once subscribed, these primary contacts can share schedule access with additional caregivers (sub-subscribers).
• If your child did not use LMSD Transportation for summer classes, you will receive a Stopfinder invitation via email on August 25, 2025, with instructions and a setup link.

Please note: If you ever find different information in StopFinder versus the PowerSchool Parent Portal about a bus stop, bus number or time, remember the PowerSchool Parent Portal is what you should rely on for the most accurate and up-to-date information.

This short video explains how to sign up for StopFinder and demonstrates some of its features.

You can download the StopFinder app from the AppStore or Google Play. The BusStatus app is no longer used by LMSD and should be removed from your device(s).

Sincerely,

Uldis Vilcins
LMSD Transportation Supervisor