A student tracking system tracks students' location traveling to and from schools and provides information about the students to responsible parties associated with the students such as parents, bus drivers, school administrators, and faculty. Readers read identification information from tags (e.g. radiofrequency identification tags) associated with the students and/or entrance/exit points of school buses, school buildings and/or classrooms and send the identification information along with location information (e.g. via a global navigation satellite system receiver) to a tracking and authorization module, which generates event information for entering and exiting events at the entrance/exit points, verifies that the event information matches predetermined school schedule, bus and route information, detects anomalies in the event information, and generates attendance information. The tracking and authorization module sends the event, verification, anomaly and/or attendance information to devices operated by the responsible parties.