I lived in Kelso Washington for a couple of years back in the late 90's.
My kids had to walk one mile to school even though there was a bus stop on the street behind our house. The school said we were outside of their bus district and refused to let my then small kids ride the bus.
I got to checking around and this is not an exaggeration, there were 12 registered sex offenders between our house and that school.
We moved completely out of that town.