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Top 25 School bus companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 541 school bus companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 29,858 professional contacts across them, including 4,678 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers school bus companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest school bus companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,925 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the leading student transportation services provider for school districts in North America, First Student provides the best start and finish to every school day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,687 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Durham School Services is a full-service student transportation provider, committed to getting students to school safely, on time and ready to learn.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 877 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “About Us Blue Bird offers a complete line of Type A, C and D school buses in a variety of options and configurations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 778 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1997, Student Transportation of America operates more than vehicles throughout the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 510 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1924 as MASTCO by the visionary Ruth Mutter, DATTCO has evolved into a third generation DeVivo family enterprise within the transportation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HopSkipDrive offers safe, dependable transportation solutions for schools and families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 407 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zūm has reimagined student transportation- managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 399 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Academy Bus, the largest privately owned and operated transportation company in the US, has been serving the East Coast for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WE Transport has been a respected Long Island school-based bus operator for more than fifty years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EverDriven is the leader in Alternative Student Transportation for school districts nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 261 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Krapf Group is a family-owned and operated transportation business established in 1942, by George Krapf, Jr, to provide pupil transportation for the local municipalities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GO Riteway provides transportation solutions to meet any need, for every occasion including everything from single vehicle transportation for one event to multiple vehicles for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Petermann is a full-service student transportation provider, committed to getting students to school safely, on time and ready to learn.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A proud Wisconsin institution, Lamers Bus Lines has been providing safe and affordable transportation since 1944.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Student and Adult Travel: Let us take you there!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CoachAmerica, we don't just move people, we move possibility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Apple Bus Company is a transportation services provider with headquarters in Cleveland, Missouri and operations in seven states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Transportation Department for the Alamance-Burlington School System.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Midwest Transit Equipment is proud to be the largest volume school bus dealership in the United States, delivering more buses to more customers than any other dealer in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Logan Bus Co, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Storer is dedicated to providing premier transit services to each and every client through elevated standards of performance in the areas of safety, maintenance, customer service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Martz Group, founded in 1908, is a 5th generation, family owned and operated transportation company with headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trinity Transportation prides themselves as one of the most innovative ground transportation specialists in the industry, offering a full line of services including motor coaches…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Windstar Lines began in 1995 with one simple goal in mind: To provide superior charter motorcoach service with a strong emphasis on meticulously clean, late model equipment, with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: school bus companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names school bus companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of school bus companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name school bus companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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School bus companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 541 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among school bus companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “school bus companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names school bus companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among school bus companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,678 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names school bus companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many school bus companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 541 school bus companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
First Student, headquartered in Cincinnati, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most school bus companies?
New York leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Orlando (8) and Philadelphia (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,678 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 541 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.