Transportation
The Harker School’s three divisions – lower, middle and upper – are on three distinct campuses. We offer a variety of transportation options for K-12 students to help our busy families around the greater Bay Area. Harker also provides a shuttle to athletic teams for their away games.
Intercampus Shuttle
Our campuses are connected by a free morning and evening intercampus shuttle. This provides the convenience for our families of dropping off and picking up all of your children at one campus; we’ll drive them to their respective campuses. Students K-12 may ride this shuttle.
Bus Service
As a service to our families, Harker provides a variety of home-to-school and school-to-home bus service on a defined daily schedule. This service is included in tuition.
The broadest range of services are provided to the middle school campus, as all middle school students must arrive either by carpool or bus due to campus access restrictions. Services run Monday through Friday on all dates in which school is in session, with some exceptions that are announced each school year.
- Areas covered for the middle school: Peninsula, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Mountain View, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Campbell, Silver Creek, Willow Glen/Cambrian.
- We have morning home-to-school service available to all campuses from the Peninsula, Silver Creek and Cupertino.
- We have an intercampus shuttle between our lower, middle and upper school campuses in the mornings and afternoons.
- We offer school-to-home service to stops up the Peninsula and in Cupertino. Depending upon available resources, we offer routes that leave both right after school and others that allow students to participate in after-school activities and then head home after that.
We use SmartTag RFID technology to account for students on their bus, to make sure they are on the correct route and get off at the proper stop.
If you would like more specific information about specific schedules and stop locations, please contact Brianna Alday, administrative assistant to the assistant head of school for student affairs, at 408.345.9685.
Carpooling
Harker parents are encouraged to reach out to other parents to arrange car pools to and from school and after-school activities outside of Harker to support our sustainability efforts as a community. We are proud to partner with CarpooltoSchool to make planning easy and convenient for families.
Families of middle school students must carpool to or shuttle to campus. Due to city permit regulations we limit the car traffic that is allowed on campus each day. Family participation in utilizing CarpooltoSchool or organizing their own car pools is vital to the success of our traffic operations and commitment to being a good neighbor to the surrounding community.
Student Drivers
We provide student parking for our upper school students in a space-available program, with seniors earning first priority and remaining spots being awarded to students who have applied to the semester parking lottery program. When possible, the Office of Student Affairs will work with upper school students to find a transportation solution if they are unable to procure parking on campus.