Safe Routes to School Student Travel Tally

Updated August 2025

About 31% of our K-5 students are walking or biking to school!

To better support students in walking and biking to school and track annual progress, we work with Seattle Public Schools to conduct an annual travel tally in all elementary and K-8 schools during the first week of June.  

In June 2025, we had a 50 elementary schools surveying students on how they get to and from school recording a walk, bike, and roll rate of 31%.

2025 Mode choice for K-5 students

Bar chart showing the different mode choices.

This chart shows the percentage of people using different modes of transportation:

- Car: 46% of people use a car.
- Walk: 25% of people walk.
- School Bus: 19% of people use a school bus.
- Carpool: 4% of people carpool.
- Bike: 5% of people bike.
- Transit: 1% of people use public transit.
- Scootering, etc.: 1% of people use scooters or similar methods.