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5.5.7 Services and supplies – student transportation
The following chart presents the benchmarking of payments made to public carriers, other school
districts and others who provide transportation for school district pupils.
SY2013/14 Benchmarking
120
Cost per pupil
100
80
Best
performing
25%
Median
60
40
49
56
76
Lowest
performing
25%
20
27
34
-
0
38
(Richmond)
4
44 (North
Vancouver)
13
23 (Central
Okanagan)
41 (Burnaby) 43
(Coquitlam)
39
(Vancouver)
36 (Surrey) 45 (West
Vancouver)
$M 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.7 1.2 2.8 4.0 0.5
Source: Ministry of Education
Finding 5.17
VBE spent $49 per pupil on student transportation, and performs near the median among all BC school
districts.
VBE has implemented an initiative, recommended in the PwC VSB Resource Allocation Review from
2012, to review and update the eligibility criteria for bus fare reimbursement, for the purpose of
reducing costs. The PwC VSB Resource Allocation Review from 2015 notes that the implementation of
this initiative provides $0.29M in recurring estimated annual benefits, and has accumulated benefits of
an estimated $0.29M since SY2012/13. PwC has subsequently revised the recurring estimated annual
benefits down to $0.14M, after further validation of the benefits with VBE.
The benchmarking above suggests that if VBE were to achieve top quartile level, expenses could be
decreased by $2.3M, while achieving median performance could decrease expenses by $1.1M.
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