Transportation

2025-26 Bus Schedules

IDEA

Bus Stop Location		Pick Up Time/Wed	Bus Number	Drop Off Time	Bus Number
	S. 11th & Broadway Pierce Transit Station	7:05 / 8:05 AM	71	4:11 PM	71
	6501 N 23rd St (PDC)	7:23 / 8:23 AM	71	3:50 PM	71

NE Tacoma Schedule

Bus Stop Location		Pick Up Time / Wed	Bus Number	Drop Off Time	Bus Number
	Browns Point Elem	6:36 / 7:36 AM	71	4:35 PM	71
	Crescent Heights Elem	6:42 / 7:42 AM	71	4:41 PM	71
	NE Tacoma Elem	6:51 / 7:51 AM	71	4:49 PM	71
	Tacoma Mall Transit Center	7:42 / 8:42 AM	71	3:54 PM	83

All bus stop times and bus numbers are subject to change.

SAMI

Bus Stop Location		Pick Up Time/Wed	Bus Number	Drop Off Time	Bus Number
	Tacoma Community College Pierce Transit Station	7:35 / 8:35 AM	59	4:22 PM	95

	S. 11th & Broadway Pierce Transit Station	7:28 / 8:28 AM	29
	Park Shuttle via Downtown	7:22 / 8:22 AM	95	4:10 pm	36
	Tacoma Mall Transit	7:26 / 8:26 AM	13	4:06 PM	13

	Park Shuttle via Tacoma Mall	7:26 / 8:26 AM	64	4:15 PM	64

NE Tacoma Schedule

Bus Stop Location		Pick Up Time / Wed	Bus Number	Drop Off Time	Bus Number
	Browns Point Elem	6:54 / 7:54 AM	29	4:26 PM	69
	Crescent Heights Elem	7:01 / 8:01 AM	29	4:31 PM	69
	NE Tacoma Elem	7:10 / 8:10 AM	29	4:40 PM	69

All bus stop times and bus numbers are subject to change.

SOTA

NE Tacoma Schedule

Bus Stop Location		Pick Up Time / Wed	Bus Number	Drop Off Time	Bus Number
	Browns Point Elem	7:01 / 8:01 AM	70	4:19 PM	70
	Crescent Heights Elem	7:08 / 8:08 AM	70	4:11 PM	70
	NE Tacoma Elem	7:18 / 8:18 AM	70	4:01 PM	70
	S 11th & Broadway	7:36 / 8:36 AM	70	3:42 PM	70

Transportation Questions?

If you have questions, please contact our Transportation Department through the district 253 571 1000 or for First Student call 253 272 7750 or email Elizabeth.Anderson@firstgroup.com

Students can use their ORCA passes to ride Pierce Transit to campus or to a Transit Center.
Yellow Buses will meet at designated regional hubs to take them to school (schedules below)

Pierce Transit (External Site)
Flash Alert (School Closure Info)

TPS Transportation

Student Parking

Students are not permitted to park in the zoo parking lot during the school day. This lot is reserved for paying customers of Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Students need to park in the Camp Six Parking lot by the portables and are required to complete a student parking permit. Before students begin driving to campus and parking on campus, they must print out this permit and give it to Mr. T.

Student Parking Permit