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Sherman ISD Starts Aug. 11: Find Your Bus, and Who Qualifies to Ride

Bearcats return Tuesday. Sherman ISD routes stops through InfoFinder, and eligibility turns on a two-mile rule the district is careful to say is not a judgment about whether walking is safe.

Delia Montoya

August 10, 20262 min read

Back to School Morning - illustration, Jake Team LLC
Back to School Morning - illustration, Jake Team LLC

Sherman ISD students return to class Tuesday, Aug. 11, the first day of the 2026-27 school year.

The district has posted first-day guidance, including bus route information, on its back-to-school page. Registration is still open for families who have not enrolled.

Finding your bus

Sherman ISD uses Transfinder routing software, and families look up their own stop through the InfoFinder-I tool on the district's Find Your Bus page.

The search runs on your street address, and both the house number and the street name are required. Leaving the campus and grade level blank returns results for all campus levels.

The district cautions that while it works to keep the system current, some bus numbers may change.

If the search returns nothing, the district asks families to use the Contact Us button on the InfoFinder page and submit the form with a phone number, which lets the transportation office enter the student into the system directly.

Sherman ISD also offers the Here Comes the Bus app, which families can use to follow their student's bus.

Who qualifies

Two conditions have to be met. A student must live within their campus attendance zone, and must live two or more miles from their assigned campus.

The district provides door-to-door service from school to home for its youngest bus-eligible students and for special education students who qualify.

The district's own caveat on the two-mile rule

Sherman ISD is explicit that the eligibility standard is not a safety finding.

The two-mile threshold, the district says, "should not be interpreted as a determination that it is safe or appropriate for a student to walk to school."

Where district transportation is not available, families are responsible for deciding how their child gets to and from school, whether that is driving, carpooling, walking, biking or another arrangement.

Sources

https://www.shermanisd.net/

https://www.shermanisd.net/departments/transportation/find-your-bus

https://www.shermanisd.net/departments/transportation/here-comes-the-bus-app

https://www.shermanisd.net/families/back-to-school

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Delia Montoya

Delia Montoya reports on schools and higher education across the Sherman area.

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