Students gather in Golden Gate Park for the kickoff of last year’s Bike and Roll to School Week.
Grab your helmets! San Francisco Safe Routes to School is celebrating national Bike & Roll to School Week from May 4-8. And the whole school community is invited.
Bike & Roll to School Week encourages students across San Francisco to get on their bikes, scooters, skateboards, wheelchairs and other mobility devices and roll to school together. Don’t have a bike, scooter or skateboard? No problem. Students and families also can join the fun by walking, taking transit or carpooling to school. Everyone is welcome!
Next stop: the classroom! A Bike & Roll to School Week group makes its way down the street.
How to get involved
More than 5,000 students and adults from 55 schools participated in Bike & Roll to School Week events last year. Ready to be one of them? It’s easy!
- Become a Bike Champion. Parents, caregivers, teachers and school staff can fill out this form to host an event at their school. We’ll connect you with possible cohosts and offer tips to help you run a successful event.
- Show up for the events at your school. Stay tuned to your school’s news. Staff or parent volunteers will announce if they’re hosting any Bike & Roll to School Week events on your campus closer to the week of May 4.
- Enter our art contest. All students are welcome to submit art they create and win prizes! This year’s theme is Mascots on Wheels! The piece should feature your favorite mascot or animal biking or rolling in the city.
Art contest rules
- All entries are due by May 15, 2026.
- Artwork should be 8.5” x 11” with a horizontal orientation. All mediums are welcome, such as drawing, painting, mixed media, digital, etc.
- Submit a scanned copy, high-quality photograph or your digital art in .JPG or .PDF format to SRTSContest@sfmta.com. Include your name, school and grade level.
- Judging Criteria:
- Creativity and originality
- Clarity of artwork’s message in responding to the prompt and promoting Bike & Roll to School Week
- Representation of diversity and inclusivity
- There will be four winners, in total. One each will be chosen from an elementary school, middle school and high school. And there will be a grand prize winner.
- Each winner will receive a Flax Art Materials gift card. Plus, your art might be featured in future Safe Routes to School promotional materials!
- Safe Routes to School must be able to contact all winners and collect their artwork.
- All submitted art becomes property of San Francisco Safe Routes to School, a program of the SFMTA.
- You do not have to participate in a Bike & Roll to School Week activity to enter the art contest.
Superhero students roll their way to school with their golden capes.
Celebrating another year of fun and safety
We are also pleased to announce the release of the Safe Routes to School 2024-2025 annual report. It summarizes the programs Safe Routes hosted during the 2024-2025 school year, as well as results from the biennial travel tally. The highlights speak for themselves. Safe Routes continues to make it easier for students and their families to choose one of the “Four Fun Ways” to get to school: walking, taking transit, biking and carpooling. And the program helps students build the skills and confidence to travel independently.
During the 2024-2025 school year, more than 19,000 people participated in 209 Safe Rroutes events. That’s a 78% increase in participants and 35% more events compared to the previous year! Our events and activities included Walk & Roll to School Week, Muni field trips and walking school buses. The program also launched several new activities to teach students about street safety and infrastructure.
We learned some exciting things from our biennial travel tally. For the first time since the pandemic, a majority of families (51%) chose to take one of the Four Fun Ways to school! Taking transit continued to be the most popular of the Four Fun Ways to get to school (27%). More than half of high school students in the survey said they take it to and from school (55% of 9th graders).
Through engaging programming and hands-on education, Safe Routes to School continues to empower families to opt to take a greener way to get to school and helps students grow into confident, independent travelers – one trip at a time.
Want to learn more? Just visit the Safe Routes to School website. You also can listen to the “Safe and Fun School Commute” episode of our Taken with Transportation podcast. You’ll find it on our podcast webpage (SFMTA.com/Podcast).
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