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Top 25 School bus manufacturers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 137 school bus manufacturers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 19,238 professional contacts across them, including 4,254 with verified work emails. Elkhart is the largest hub.
This list covers school bus manufacturers 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 16, 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 manufacturers 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We build International trucks and engines and IC Bus® school and commercial buses that are as tough and as smart as the people who drive them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 508 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GILLIG is the leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Creative Bus Sales is now Model 1 Commercial Vehicles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Builders of luxury Class A, Super C and Compact C motor coaches since 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AROW Global Corp.(formerly operating under the name “Storm-Tite” which now refers to the brand name of our legacy series of transportation windows) has been operating in Canada…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1975, ENC (ElDorado National - California) is a leading U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Collins Bus, a division of Forest River Bus & Van, pioneered the industry's first small school bus, setting the standard for the Type A classification.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Bus Experts" Central States Bus Sales is a dealer for several manufacturers of new and used school and transit buses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “School Buses for sale, from short buses to large capacity, CNG, Diesel & alt fuel school buses, in California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wolfington Body Company provides school and commercial bus sales, service, transportation, and parts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Don Brown Bus Sales carries one of the largest inventories of new and used buses, shuttles and vans in the United States with a constantly changing inventory of 400+ units.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Forest River Bus & Van, North America’s largest shuttle bus and van manufacturer, offers passenger transportation solutions under the brand’s Starcraft Bus, StarTrans® Bus, Glaval…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Midwest Bus Sales is a certified Thomas Built Bus dealer building lasting relationships across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grech Motors is the industries leading Minicoach manufacturer specializing in the highest quality mid-size buses and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BCC designs, manufacturers, integrates industry leading HVAC-R products for the bus industry including transit, school, shuttle and coach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For nearly 30 years, Davey Coach Sales has been a leader in new and used buses for sale and short and long-term lease/rental across North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Family-owned and operated since 1928, Hoekstra Transportation is committed to supplying and servicing all of your transportation needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than thirty years of experience and one of the largest inventories in the market, National Bus Sales leads the nation in providing quality, used, late-model, low-mileage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nelson’s Bus Service is in the business of operating, selling, and servicing both school and commercial buses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bus Center Family of Companies includes: Mid-South Bus Center (TN), Transportation South (AL), The Bus Center - Atlanta (GA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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 manufacturers. 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 manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of school bus manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name school bus manufacturers. 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 manufacturers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 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 137 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 manufacturers, 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 manufacturers”. 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 manufacturers), 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 manufacturers, 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, 4,254 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 16, 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 manufacturers, 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 manufacturers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 137 school bus manufacturers 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 manufacturers?
Elkhart leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Orlando (5) and Big Lake (4).
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 4,254 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 137 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 16, 2026.
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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.
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