Who picked up Arjun?
An uncle nobody recognises, a signed slip from 2023, and a guard who isn’t sure.
PUPILCAMPUS · FOR SAFER SCHOOL DAYS
4:40 pm. Bus 3 is late. Your office is the last to know.
Give us one route’s stops and students. Tomorrow morning, the attendant’s phone logs every boarding and drop — and if the bus runs late, that route’s families hear it before they think to call.
Tomorrow morning: every child on one route, accounted for.
Today · 9:20 am · sample
NORTH STAR
children accounted for · sample
absent, families told
unknowns being checked
cover lessons assigned
THIS WEEK
Route 36 min late · families told
Gate3 visitors, all verified
Unknowns2 being checked by office
Is this your starting point?
I’m and what hurts most is
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
Absence and the school road aren’t rare events. They happen every day.
children under 18 died in road crashes in India in 2022
UNICEF child road-safety roadmap, citing MoRTH data · tribuneindia.com · UNICEF plan for child road safety
average student attendance in rural government schools visited by ASER, 2024
ASER 2024 · asercentre.org · ASER 2024 national findings
average teacher attendance in rural government schools visited by ASER, 2024
ASER 2024 · asercentre.org · ASER 2024 national findings
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Safety runs on a register, a phone tree and luck.
Attendance is on paper till noon. The bus attendant rings the office only when something’s wrong. The gate trusts a confident face. And families find out last — from each other, on the class WhatsApp group.
The late-bus phone storm
One route runs twenty minutes late. Eighty calls. The office knows as little as the parents.
Attendance arrives at noon
Paper registers reach the office after lunch. Until then, nobody can say who isn’t in school.
HOW IT WORKS
Count, move, hand over, tell — every school day.
A phone or a paper slip is enough. Software keeps the log; a person handles every exception.
1Count
Roll call by 9:15, on a phone or paper slip. Anyone unaccounted for is checked before first period.
2Move
The attendant’s phone logs each boarding and drop. A delay alerts only that route’s families.
3Hand over
Each pickup is checked against the adults that family authorised, with photos. Someone new needs a one-time code.
4Tell home first
Boarded, dropped, delayed, picked up — families hear it in Kannada, Telugu or English, before they ask.
PupilCampusSomething unusual? It lands with a named person at the office, never just a log.
THREE WAYS TO START
Start with one bus tomorrow, or let us run the lot.
Whichever you choose, you end up with the same thing: every handover logged, every family told. Switch any time.
For principals who want to watch it work before calling anyone.
- 1Send one route’s stops and students
- 2The attendant installs it on any phone
- 3Watch every boarding and drop tomorrow
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Tomorrow morning
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Free for 30 days. No card, no call.
For schools with five or more routes, a gate and a busy office.
- 1A 30-minute call with your transport head
- 2Routes, gate and roll call in a week
- 3A day-14 review of every handover
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Day 2
- WHAT IT TAKES
- A short paid pilot, credited to year one
For owners who want a control room without hiring one.
- 1We map routes and train your attendants
- 2We watch exceptions live every school day
- 3Your staff act; we log and report
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Week one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Set-up plus a per-route fee, quoted for you
WHAT YOU’LL SEE FIRST
The moment it lands: Route 3 runs late, and its families hear it from you first.
MAKE IT YOURS
Stops named the way your families name them.
ONLY AT YOUR SCHOOL
Stops in your families’ words, not map pins
Draw routes on the map or upload your Excel, and name stops as families do — “Durgamma temple”, “Kappagal water tank”. Delay notes use those names, in Kannada, Telugu or English. The bus is located; children never are.
- Stops named in your families’ words
- We track the bus, never the child
- Pickup only by adults families chose
ROUTE ON WHATSAPPRoute 7 · evening · sample
- 4:05School gate · 38 boarded
- 4:22Durgamma templebus is here
- 4:31Kappagal water tank
- 4:46Satyanarayana Pet
On time · next stop told 5 minutes ahead
Your gate rules
Visitor hours, ID checks, and who may approve a stranger at the gate.
Your pickup register
Each family sets its authorised adults, with photos, and can change them any day.
Your cover rules
Your periods, your bell times, your limits on how often anyone covers.
WHY IT GETS BETTER EVERY TERM
Every logged day makes tomorrow a little quieter.
Each exception becomes something you can fix: a stop moved ten minutes, a gate hour changed, a cover rota made fairer. By the second term, your mornings run on what your own campus has learned.
Patterns show up in your own log, so fixes come from your routes, not guesses.
- 1Roll call by 9:15Phone or paper slip
- 2Every trip loggedEach boarding, each drop
- 3Pickups checkedAuthorised adults only
- 4Exceptions closedA person closes each
- 5Rules adjustedStops, cover, gate hours
- ↻ Your campus’s daily log
WHERE IT LEADS
Once you can see every handover, you notice what else slips.
When your own log points somewhere new, we show you the maths. Nothing is switched on unless you ask.
WHEN YOU NOTICE
More than 30 children with a medical note ride your buses or board.
Health enclaveTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 60 children × 4 card updates a year × 20 min ÷ 60 = 80 nurse hours a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
More than three cover lessons a day, two weeks running.
PupilTeamsTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 4 covers a day × 15 min to arrange × 200 days ÷ 60 = 200 coordinator hours a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
The office takes 50+ family calls a day that aren’t about buses.
ChittyTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 1,200 families × 1 call a month × 3 min × 10 months ÷ 60 = 600 office hours a year
A SCHOOL GROUP · BALLARI · SINCE 2001
We count heads at our own gate. Here is our word.
PupilTree is a school group in Ballari, running classrooms since 2001. Founding schools get founding terms, a direct line to the people building it, and a say in what it does next — plus an easy exit if it isn’t earning its keep.
Founding terms
Founding-school pricing, held for three years.
Stop on day 14
Not useful? Stop, and keep your routes, logs and registers.
The bus, not the child
We locate vehicles. Children’s phones and locations are never tracked.
Your logs stay yours
Incidents and registers are never shared without your written yes.
WHAT WE’LL TRACK WITH YOUChildren accounted for by 9:15Delays told before the first callPickups checked against the registerCover settled before first bell
QUESTIONS
What your transport head will ask us.
Didn’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp — a person replies, usually within the hour.
Ask on WhatsAppNo. The attendant’s phone is enough, and a printed boarding sheet works too. GPS units already on your buses can feed in.
Does every child on Route 3 get off where you think?
Run one route free. By tomorrow afternoon you’ll know — boarding by boarding, stop by stop — and so will their families.
The bus, never the childWorks on paper tooEasy exit by day 14