Schülerfahrtkosten

If you would like to be reimbursed for your child's travel costs to and from school, you must apply to the relevant authority.

School transportation is the necessary transportation of pupils on their way to school. There is an entitlement to school transport

• for pupils of the elementary school and the special school up to grade 4 with a school route of at least two kilometers,
• for pupils of regular schools, grammar schools, comprehensive schools and special schools from grade 5 onwards and for pupils of basic vocational training years, vocational preparation years, two-year technical secondary schools and vocational schools that do not offer vocational qualifications, for a distance of at least three kilometers to school.

A minimum limit does not apply if the route to school poses a particular risk to the safety and health of the pupils or if pupils have to be transported because of a permanent or temporary disability. From grade 11 of the Gymnasium including special schools and classes as well as the three-year gymnasiale Oberstufe associated with the comprehensive school or a school according to § 4 (4) ThürSchulG, parents, or in the case of students of full age, the students themselves, may contribute to the transportation costs. This also applies to students of the vocational high school, the two-year technical high school and those vocational schools that do not provide a vocational qualification. The transport and reimbursement obligation only applies to the shortest route between the pupil's home and the nearest state school that can accommodate the pupil and which enables him/her to obtain the school-leaving qualification he/she is aiming for.

If the county, the independent city or the municipality belonging to the county as the school authority has not organized school transportation and has not issued tickets for public transport, the application for reimbursement of costs must be submitted by means of a form to the school administration office.

• From grade 11 of the Gymnasium including the special schools and classes as well as the three-year gymnasiale Oberstufe associated with the comprehensive school or a school according to § 4 para. 4 ThürSchulG, parents, in the case of students of full age the students themselves, can participate in the transportation costs.
• The transportation and reimbursement obligation exists only for the shortest distance between the pupil's home and the nearest state school that can accommodate the pupil and which enables him/her to obtain the school-leaving qualification he/she is aiming for.
• Reimbursement must be submitted in writing to the School Administration Office.

In the case of supraregional special schools, special schools and classes, as well as elementary and regular schools run by municipalities belonging to the district, the school authority of the respective school is responsible for transporting the pupils within the scope of the school's expenses.

The necessary application forms are available from the school boards.