School Bus Monitors
Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.
Most important skills
- Monitoring
- Speaking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Critical Thinking
- Coordination
- Judgment and Decision Making
Key knowledge
- Public Safety and Security
- English Language
- Transportation
- Customer and Personal Service
- Education and Training
- Psychology
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
What the work involves
- Announce routes or stops.
- Assist children with disabilities or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.
- Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.
- Clean school bus interiors by picking up waste, wiping down windows, or vacuuming.
- Direct students boarding and exiting the school bus.
- Direct students evacuating the bus during safety drills.
- Escort young children across roads or highways.
- Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Social, Conventional, Realistic.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (56.5% of expert ratings)
- Related experience
- None (32.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month (34.4%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for School Bus Monitors is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 84% of occupations compared | 81% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Low | Lower on dealing with the public than 63% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “Not important at all” |
| Teamwork | Low | Lower on teamwork than 79% of occupations compared | 48% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very low | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 81% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Very low | Lower on time pressure than 90% of occupations compared | 50% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | High | Higher on conflict situations than 77% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | High | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 64% of occupations compared | 28% of surveyed respondents chose “Never” |
| Consequence of error | Moderate | Lower on consequence of error than 53% of occupations compared | 39% of surveyed respondents chose “Not serious at all” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very low
- Conflict situations: high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: high
- Consequence of error: moderate
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0.23%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 1.76%
- Contact with others most of the time: 16.93%
- Constant contact with others: 81.08%
n = 36, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 30.24%
- Fairly important: 5.41%
- Important: 18.84%
- Very important: 16.38%
- Extremely important: 29.13%
n = 37, Incumbent 08/2026
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 13.53%
- Fairly important: 3.63%
- Important: 17.19%
- Very important: 17.35%
- Extremely important: 48.3%
n = 37, Incumbent 08/2026
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 16.83%
- Limited freedom: 24.65%
- Some freedom: 28.74%
- A lot of freedom: 29.77%
n = 36, Incumbent 08/2026
Time pressure
- Never: 38.9%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.06%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 7.54%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 1.64%
- Every day: 49.86%
n = 37, Incumbent 08/2026
Conflict situations
- Never: 32.8%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.79%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 10.71%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 13.14%
- Every day: 40.57%
n = 36, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 28.04%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.26%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 25.35%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 22.25%
- Every day: 20.11%
n = 35, Incumbent 08/2026
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 38.95%
- Fairly serious: 11.29%
- Serious: 2.19%
- Very serious: 13.75%
- Extremely serious: 33.83%
n = 34, Incumbent 08/2026
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