FirstView Classic

Your transportation app for school districts, parents and the community.

App info

Version :

2024.1.4

Category :

Education

Update :

June 27, 2025

Installs :

254,946

Developer :

First Student Inc.

Requires Android :

Android 4.1+

Content Rating :

Everyone

Get it on :

Download APK

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: FirstView Classic, Developed by First Student Inc.. Listed in Education Category. Current Version Is 2024.1.4, Updated On 27/06/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: FirstView Classic. Achieved Over 255 thousand Installs. FirstView Classic Currently Has 3 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.0 Stars

IMPORTANT: FirstView Classic app is now retired. We’ve launched a new version called FirstView 1.0, built to better support your school bus tracking needs.
Please install our new app, FirstView 1.0, now available in the App Store.

Designed with parents, for parents – FirstView®, powered by First Student, makes you a part of your student’s journey. To school. From school. Every day.

FirstView® is your resource for knowing the location of your student’s bus, estimated arrival times at your student’s stop and when your student’s bus arrives or departs their school. FirstView® is a partnership between First Student and the school districts we serve, bringing increased transparency and communication about the school bus for students and their families. Currently, FirstView® is only available to a small number of school districts but we are working hard to offer it to as many districts as possible! Please contact your school district or our FirstView® support team if you would like to know if FirstView® is available for you.

Dedicated Customer Support
• Contact FirstView® Monday – Friday by:
- Calling the toll-free phone number 888-889-8920 from 7:00 a.m. EST to 5:00 p.m. EST;
- Emailing Customer Support at [email protected]; or
- Using the in-app messaging to provide feedback.

Live Tracking
• The FirstView® map screen shows you the live location and direction of your student’s bus, your student's stop schedule for the current day and timestamps for school arrivals and departures.

Predictive Stop Arrival Times
• Analyzing route and real-time GPS data, we determine an estimated time of arrival to your stop provided on the FirstView® map.

Custom Alerts and Messages
• Set up push or email notifications alerting you when your student's bus is a chosen distance or number of minutes away from your stop.
• Receive push messages about why your student’s bus is late and an estimation of how long it will be delayed.

Multi-Stop View
• Buses for all your students can be tracked with FirstView®. Using individual colors for each student, every selected stop appears on the map simultaneously for easy viewing and differentiation.

Additional User Notifications
• The main user of the FirstView® app can connect three additional email accounts to receive email alerts.

Secure and Easy Access
• FirstView® requires a password-protected account along with your student’s ID for app set-up. This way, only you can view your student’s stop.
• Register and log-in from your smartphone, tablet or desktop.

We are currently offering version 2024.1.4. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.

It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.

What's New

Please Download the New FirstView 1.0 App
FirstView Classic is no longer supported.

To continue using FirstView:

1. Delete this app, FirstView Classic.
2. Download FirstView 1.0 from the App Store.
3. Sign up for a new account.

Thank you for using FirstView—we’re excited to bring you an enhanced experience in the new app!

For questions, contact [email protected].

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.0

3,000 total

5 58.5

4 13.5

3 10.6

2 4.7

1 12.8

Total number of ratings

Total number of active users rated for: FirstView Classic

Total number of installs (*estimated)

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Recent Comments

Shannie

Garbage. It does not send notifications about distances you've specified so the bus could actually be on time but the map is showing it's at least 10mins away...so what's the point?? I can open, close, and re-open the map after seeing the bus with my own 2 eyes and the location still hasn't updated. This app is just as bad as the bus drivers that don't know how to use GPS! I'm willing to change my baby's school just to not deal with First Student at this point.

Allie Olson

Half the time the app doesn't work in that the bus "location" is in the next city over. The timing isn't very accurate, either. There's always some sort of glitch that the transportation company hasn't seen before or can't troubleshoot. Overall not very reliable. Hopefully the developers figure it out because it could be a great app. Edit: it's been over a year since the initial review and nothing has changed. It's barely functional, still.

Angela Tupper

Is this app supposed to actually do anything, or be useful? GPS hasn't been on in well over a year, most of last school year and not at all this school year. It just shows my child's pick up and drop off time, which is what the little card in the mail was for. That peice of paper is 100x more useful than this app. I only download the app every so often with the hopes that it might work. Alas, it doesn't. Suprise. Un-installed.

Lowell F

If you are looking for a general idea it's not bad. It doesn't show you real time info. It just updates every 5 min. In the city I live in you can get halfway across city in 5 min so not supper useful. All my other map apps show a live dot moving on the screen which is much more precise in determining ETA. Also if the bus already passed your stop the ETA doesn't reflect that. It just moves ETA out further. I do like that it sends me an alert when it's 5 min away.

Eryn Milliken

Maybe 1.5 stars - tops. I've been using this app for a whole school year. Top complaints: It's not accurate, there's a big lag, it's often disconnected from GPS, updates are delivered well after they're helpful. Every day (not exaggerating) it will say the bus is 10-12 minutes out when it drives past our house. The drop-off will go from that 10-12 min to "arrived" with less than 1 minute having passed. I will watch the bus go by while the app says it's still on a different street, and that's if the map is connected at all. Updates about the bus being late or having a different driver often come through HOURS after it's relevant information. If you were truly counting on this app for accurate information, you'd be in a rough spot.

Zachary Sanford

It's not accurate, it only works maybe 25% of the time. I have everything properly configured on my phone, notifications etc. It's NOT reliable at all. This is my second year trying to use it. I'll keep it installed for the random chance it works but I cannot rely on it. I appreciate the developers effort to make an app like this but it does more harm than good if you're thinking it's going to accurately notify you of your child's bus.

K. Jackson

I love the fact that this map is available for the public. However, my child have a sub diver often. Therefore, normally sub drivers, drive a different bus. The system can not track the sub diver bus. It is equally important to link the sub bus numbers. So that, we could still track our child while on the bus. That is why I rank 3 stars instead of 5. Because It is an awesome app when you can track your cild bus.

Chris Benner

I found the account setup to be a bit tedious. The worst latest "feature" (bug) I have found is that I have to completely log in again every time I open the app. It can't even remember the state and school district. Super annoying and not user friendly. My child's bus location and estimated time is not the most accurate. Location is usually delayed by about a few minutes, sometimes just off to the point the app provides no value.