Transport
Getting to Ballard School
By Road
The School is located half a mile north of New Milton town centre on the B3058. Entry to the School grounds is by way of an entrance-only, private drive which feeds into a one-way system for safety. The main car park and drop-off lane serves the Lower-Prep, Upper-Prep and Senior School and there is an additional car park to the rear of the grounds for Nursery and Pre-Prep. Exit from the School grounds is via an exit-only gate back onto the B3058.
Our School Bus Service (2023-2024 Routes our 2024-2025 routes will be created at the start of the academic year)
The School has a fleet of private minibuses and offers an excellent service covering East Dorset and West Hampshire, which is very popular, so please do enquire as early as possible.
Pupils are picked up and returned to their front doors, in most cases, when possible. Coverage includes: Bournemouth, Sandbanks, Lilliput, Poole, Canford Cliffs, Penn Hill, Westbourne, Talbot Woods, Charminster, Queens Park, Southbourne, Ferndown, Christchurch, Mudeford, Highcliffe, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, Ferndown, Beaulieu, Ringwood, Burley, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Minstead, Sway, Calmore, Ashurst, Brockenhurst, Boldre, Bransgore, Burton and Pennington. Please email our Transport Manager; transport@ballardschool.co.uk, if your area is not currently shown.
Our buses are all modern and regularly renewed. All drivers are MiDAS trained or have a full bus/coach licence and have a full DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance. Buses are scheduled to arrive at School by 8.30am and leave School for home at 5.10pm. Routes are regularly under review and we will try to meet individual requirements where possible.
Train Service
New Milton railway station is only five minutes level walk from the School grounds. The station is on the main Waterloo to Bournemouth/Weymouth line with trains generally running to and from Southampton and Bournemouth/Poole every half an hour. In the afternoon, there are at least two trains per hour leaving for stations to Bournemouth and Southampton and you may find out more about this service here – South Western Railway.
In the darker winter months, the School provides a minibus service for children to and from the station in the mornings and evenings.
Bus Routes (2023-2024)
At the start of each academic year our transport manager will work out the routes for those who have booked onto our minibuses, each year this changes so the below are a guide. Please contact our Transport Manager as early as possible if you are interested in using our minibus service.
| BUS 1 | BUS 2 |
| Sandbanks – Lilliput – Poole – Westbourne – Bournemouth | Corfe Mullen – Wimborne – West Parley – Ferndown – Avon Castle |
| BUS 3 | BUS 4 |
| Penn Hill – Canford Cliffs – Kings Park – Christchurch | Lymington – Pennington – Milford-on-Sea |
| BUS 5 | BUS 6 |
| Brockenhurst – Sway | Calmore – Lyndhurst |
| BUS 7 | BUS 8 |
| Ringwood – Hightown – Burley – Bransgore | Talbot Woods – Charminster – Queens Park – Burton |
| BUS 9 | BUS 10 |
| Dibden Purlieu – Beaulieu – Norleywood – Lymington – Hordle | Southbourne – Tuckton – Christchurch – Mudeford |
| BUS 11 | BUS 12 |
| Lymington – Pennington – Everton | Southbourne – Tuckton – Christchurch – Highcliffe |
