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"Finally - great news - I'm a real life testimonial. As of 5 minutes ago, I now have a carpool family as a result of Carpool.School! 🙌🏾 My husband is over the moon! 😂"
- PTA President
Four tools, one private community.
A private roster of every family in your community — sortable by proximity, grade, and activities. Tap any parent to message, request a carpool, or invite to a pool.
Reach any parent in the directory with a one-tap message. Threads stay in your inbox — not buried in a 200-person group chat full of fundraiser reminders.
Post a one-off ask: "Anyone coming from west of Davis Drive Tuesday afternoon?" Nearby families see it, raise their hand, and the matching happens in the app.
When families say yes, the pool becomes a recurring group with a shared schedule, live driver tracking, and pickup confirmations. Set it once and let it run.
Anyone can start a community for any school or organization in 60 seconds. Parents join privately via your invite link, or a school-administered access code if your school is already on board.
Browse a private directory of families sorted by proximity. See who lives nearby, message parents directly, and start coordinating — no admin involvement needed.
Organize carpools with neighbors, schedule pickups, and track every ride in real time. Less driving. More living.
A few of the screens you'll live in.
Find Nearby Families
See which parents live near you, filtered by school and schedule
Your Parent Directory
A private roster of community families with kids, activities, and connections, all in one place.
Coordinate the Daily Run
Live ride status, pickup confirmations, and driver tracking — every day's plan at a glance
And the rest
Parents and PTAs can start a community for any school or organization today. When school staff or organization leaders claim it, using their member rosters to verify families, it becomes a Verified Community: trusted, official, and recognized.
Started by parents · Free forever
Always. No credit card.
Run by recognized leaders · Annual plan
Free 30-day pilot · No card required
Flexible pricing for smaller groups — just ask.
$400/yr is a small line item. The visible problems it solves are not.
Onboard families automatically from your roster — no manual signups, no missed parents. The Verified badge tells every family this is the official network, not another unmoderated group chat.
Parents who know each other show up — for events, for fundraisers, for new families. A stronger parent network is a stronger school.
Every family that carpools is one less car in the pickup loop. Shorter lines, calmer staff, fewer angry neighbors at the gate.
Pair the Verified Community with end-to-end dismissal coordination — built for front-office staff and school administrators.
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Real conversations in parent group chats
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- PTA President
Every family that joins makes the network stronger. More connections mean more carpools, less driving, and a community that actually knows each other. Join an existing community or start your own — no verified admin required.
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No. Carpool.School does not perform background checks on any users. We are a connection platform, not a vetting service. Parents are solely responsible for vetting anyone they choose to carpool with.
As outlined in our EULA, Carpool.School is a software platform, not a transportation provider. Liability for all carpooling arrangements rests with participating families. By using the service, families agree to assume all risks and release both Carpool.School and their participating school from claims or damages.
The platform maps families geographically by pickup and dropoff location and suggests potential carpool partners based on compatible schedules. Families review suggestions and decide independently whether to connect. Matching is suggestive only — families decide whether and how to carpool.
We encourage families to follow common safety practices when forming carpools:
No. The app helps families discover potential matches, but actual carpools only form when families choose to reach out and coordinate rides together.
Your exact home address is never shared with other families. Maps show approximate locations only. Only members of your community can view your profile or contact information.
More questions?
Carpool.School started as a simple idea from a parent navigating school pickup every day. Car lines were chaotic, carpools were hard to organize, and school families had no single place to find each other.
We built Carpool.School as a parent-first platform — one that works from day one and becomes even more powerful when schools choose to participate.
Bus routes are shrinking, families are driving more, and school communities are still coordinating across a dozen disconnected tools.
Our goal is to give every school community one private place to connect and coordinate. When families can find each other, carpooling follows naturally.
Founder & CEO
M.S., UMass Amherst · MBA, NYU Stern
After 20 years building technology products, Krishna found the one that hit closest to home — as a parent watching the same crowded pickup line every day, filled with families driving alone. He founded Carpool.School to help school communities coordinate rides, reduce car line traffic, and connect families who already live nearby. Because the hardest part of carpooling was never the driving — it was finding each other.
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