JCPS staffer Joseph Bell signals to bus drivers at the Van Hoose Depot to begin the student transfer on Wednesday morning. 8/12/15

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With roughly 2300 elementary students using nine bus depots to transfer, students bound for Brandeis Elementary board their bus at the Van Hoose Depot on Wednesday morning. Three years ago, there were twenty depots serving 6500 students, but a re-clustering of the school districts has streamlined the process. 8/12/15

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JCPS staffer Pat Nehring double checks the student manifest as she helps load a bus destined for Brandeis Elementary at the Van Hoose Depot on Wednesday morning. 8/12/15

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Roughly 107 students from the J-Town and Buechel areas transfer busses at the Van Hoose Depot on Wednesday morning as part of their trip to downtown magnet schools. 8/12/15

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Joseph Bell, the JCPS area coordinator for J-Town bus compounds, talks to a driver while waiting for other busses to arrive at the Van Hoose Depot on Wednesday morning. 8/12/15

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Elementary students from the Jeffersontown and Buechel areas transfer busses at the Van Hoose Depot on Newburg Road Wednesday morning en route to various magnet schools located downtown. 8/12/15

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