Transportation operation costs from TEA School Transportation Operation Report, 1996-97. The peer districts devoted from 3 to 7 percent of their total expenditures to transportation. CISD is about average at 5 percent. Exhibit 9-3 includes service indicators for CISD and the peer districts. TEA's transportation reports provide a five-year history for CISD's transportation service.
Costs exclude capital outlay and debt service.
CISD operates 14 special education routes, including one that travels to San Marcos to a school for deaf students. Exhibit 9-5 details CISD transportation costs over five years by object of expenditure. The increase in transportation costs over the last five years largely is due to a 48-percent increase in personnel costs, which in turn is due largely to the growth in miles traveled.