Transportation

Immaculate Heart Academy offers regional transportation through private IHA busing from Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties. This includes bus routes in Hoboken; Bloomfield-Clifton-Rutherford-Rochelle Park-Lodi; Oakland-Franklin Lakes-Glen Rock-Ridgewood; and Ridgefield-Leonia. 

Please note that the list of towns is subject to change from year to year as we are expanding our bus routes every year to assist families with arranging transportation for those students whose towns do not provide busing. There is an annual fee for IHA’s Regional Transportation offerings.

Busing transportation to Immaculate Heart Academy is also determined by students’ towns/school districts. Some towns/districts provide busing, some reimburse for travel costs, and others do not provide any kind of transportation or reimbursement. Please contact the Board of Education in your local school district for transportation inquiries. In January of each year, a bus form is mailed home to be returned by February 1.

For questions and more information on IHA’s private busing, please contact Mrs. Kelly Oberle Tweed ’93, assistant director of admissions, at ktweed@ihanj.com. For all other transportation-related questions, please contact Mrs. Kathleen Walsh DeRosa ’84 P’18, ’19, main office manager, at kderosa@ihanj.com. Please note: IHA parking privileges are extended to seniors (as a senior privilege) and faculty/staff members only.

The below New Jersey towns are providing reimbursement (approximately $1,177) for travel costs for the 2025-26 school year:

Alpine, Belleville, Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Clifton, Closter, Demarest, Edgewater, Elmwood Park, Emerson, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Fair Lawn, Fort Lee, Garfield, Haledon, Harrington Park, Haskell, Haworth, Hawthorne, Hewitt, Hillsdale, Little Falls, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Montclair, Montvale, Moonachie, North Bergen, North Haledon, Northvale, Norwood, Oakland, Old Tappan, Paterson, Pequannock, Pompton Plains, Ringwood, River Vale, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, Secaucus, South Hackensack, Teaneck, Tenafly, Totowa, Wanaque, Wayne, West Milford, Woodcliff Lake, and Woodland Park.

*New Jersey towns that are not listed do not provide transportation or reimbursement.