First Student2025 Community Organization

The team at First Student, which includes hundreds of bus drivers in the Rochester area, provides the safest form of transportation each school day to nearly 15,000 children and their families throughout our community. They strive to provide unmatched care on their buses, so that when students arrive at their classrooms, they are ready to achieve their full potential. First Student was founded more than 100 years ago and has grown into the leading operator of school transportation in North America. The company now operates in 41 states and expects to complete one billion student trips during the 2024-25 school year. While First Student serves school districts across the U.S and Canada, they always want to combine their national scope with local reach. They say, “We are at our collective best as a company when we are engaged in the communities where we live and work.” First Student embraces these opportunities, which is why they are excited every year to participate in the Rochester St. Patrick’s Day Parade. First Student has partnered with the Parade Committee for more than 20 years, not only as a proud sponsor and participant in the Parade, but have helped us year after year shuttling marchers, spectators, officials and honorees, doing whatever we ask, whenever we ask it . First Student has a century of history, experience and dedicated service that showcases their commitment to student safety, parent trust and school district partnerships… We are proud to name First Student as the Community Organization of the Year for the 2025 Tops St. Patrick’s Day Parade.