Bike to School Day is a specially designated day designed to encourage parents and students to identify safe bicycling or walking routes to and from school.

When a school signs up for this event, the hope is to encourage participation that will sustain bicycling and walking habits beyond the one-day event. Bicycling and walking to school offer many health and environmental benefits for children, improves pedestrian safety, and helps to reduce traffic and congestion.

With assistance from each school and Parent Teacher Associations, the main goal is to display the benefits to the environment, health, and traffic congestion from bicycling and walking to school. Please visit Walk, Bike, & Roll to School for more information on biking and walking to school or download a Bike/Walk and Roll to School Flyer developed by the Village of Schaumburg.

Events

• May 8, 2024 (Wednesday) - National Bike & Roll to School Day - A total of five Schaumburg schools partnered with the village to promote and participate in National Bike & Roll to School Day. As part of the event, members of the Schaumburg Police Department handed out pencils, stickers, and swag bags to participants while greeting them before the start of their school day.

  The village thanks School District 54 schools for their participation (Aldrin, Campanelli, Dooley, Enders-Salk, and Hale Elementary Schools) as well as others who may have participated individually in this annual event.

• October 9, 2024 (Wednesday) - National Walk & Roll to School Day - The village invites all Schaumburg District 54 schools to promote and participate in National Walk & Roll to School Day. In coordination with the Police Department, students will be greeted before the beginning of their school day with incentives for participation by bicycling, walking, or rolling to school on Oct. 9. The biannual event encouraged students to identify safe biking or walking routes to school and promoted sustainable healthy habits.

If your school would like to partner with the village and participate in Bike to School Day, please contact the Transportation Department by email at vostransportation@schaumburg.com or by phone at (847) 923-3861.

BikeSafetyQuiz Mini-Grant Program, courtesy of Ride Illinois

Ride Illinois, a statewide bicycle organization working with IDOT to improve the safety of cyclists and motorists on the road, has renewed funding for the Bicycle Safety Quiz Mini Grant. Quizzes are available in English and Spanish.

Thanks to IDOT’s Injury Prevention funding, Ride Illinois is reimbursing elementary schools $2 per student, for staff time to assign and use their free, interactive quiz-based "Child Bicyclist" BikeSafetyQuiz (BSQ) lesson as a 15-30 minute computer assignment.  The amount of the reimbursement mini grant is based on the number of students using BSQ from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. Ride Illinois’ BSQ Child Bicyclist quiz, with content approved by the Illinois Secretary of State, is appropriate for 4th and 5th grade (or younger with adult help).

Elementary schools should fill out the Ride Illinois' Mini-Grant Application to set up a quiz. After designated school official's complete this form, Ride Illinois will make a copy of the quiz tailored to the school and provide a link for students to use.  Ride Illinois will send a second link to a spreadsheet, where school officials can monitor student results.