DDOT's Safety Technicians, our District school crossing guards, protect the safety of students who walk, bike, or take transit to school. School crossing guards help students safely cross hazardous intersections en route to the school building and work in conjunction with school monitors, school security, parking enforcement officers, roadway traffic operations patrols, and police officers.
For the 2025-2026 school year, DDOT commits coverage to 214 posts over 135 schools across the District. These posts can be found on the map below as ‘Core Posts’. This list is also available as a PDF attached below. These posts are primarily covered by Safety Technicians, but Traffic Control Officers may be used to support posts without a staff assignment.
In the case of extra staff capacity, DDOT maintains a list of supplemental posts to assign crossing guards to provide further protection across the District. However, these supplemental posts are not guaranteed coverage. The list of supplemental posts is provided as a separate PDF below.
Every year, DDOT reviews existing and requested posts to evaluate and prioritize posts based on pedestrian safety, demonstrated need, and other factors. To ensure that posts with the highest need are covered, we have prioritized all the posts based on the potential for a crash involving pedestrians. Factors used for prioritization include pedestrian volumes (from 2024), income and racial equity measures, crash history, number of lanes to be crossed, intersection geometry, control type (such as stop control versus signal), and other safety factors. In addition to all of this data, other aspects, such as recent intersection improvements (such as curb extensions or signalizations) and the presence of other safe crossings (covered by a guard for a school), will impact the prioritization.
Check out this interactive map to find out where school crossing guards are assigned across all eight wards.
Request a New School Crossing Guard
To request a new School Crossing Guard, school principals should download the "School Crossing Guard Request Instructions" and the "School Crossing Guard Request Form" and submit to DDOT. DDOT will evaluate each request and assign School Crossing Guards based on priority and availability of resources.
Looking to join the DDOT team?
Health and life insurance benefits and retirement benefits:
- Complimentary Capital BikeShare Membership
- Continued professional development and professional growth through DDOT University, the in-house training is available for all DDOT employees.
- Employer-assisted housing loan program, providing payment and/or closing cost financing for first-time homebuyers (restrictions apply).
