5 vs CCSD Onboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5
Access school-related data, including points, rewards, and activities, directly from your mobile device. Stay informed with school news and notifications, and utilize your digital ID for event check-ins. Participate in surveys and voting polls easily.
- View points and rewards
- Access activities and events
- Participate in surveys and polls
- Receive school news and notifications
- Digital ID for event check-in
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Access 5-Star Students data on your iPhone or iPad device! View your own points, rewards, activities, events, and access available surveys and voting polls. Plus, receive school news and notifications. Use your digital ID to check into events or even check in yourself, based on location or code, if available from your school.
CCSD Onboard
Track your school bus in real-time from your home or school. This app provides students, parents, and guardians with quality communication and service for timely bus pickups.
- Real-time bus tracking
- Bus stop notifications
- Home and school pickup tracking
- Student-parent communication
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This app was designed by students for students of the Clark County School District. Users will be able to track their school bus in real time; while they prepare to be picked up at their bus stop, home and/or school. It is our goal to provide quality communication and service to Clark County School District students, parents and guardians. Access to your education is important to us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CCSD Onboard at 2.0 against 5's 1.4. CCSD Onboard also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 5's advantage is ratings volume (6.1K vs 154) and chart position (#157 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CCSD Onboard holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5 has 6.1K ratings behind it against 154, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of 5's written reviews are positive against 18% of CCSD Onboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | CCSD Onboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.4 (6.1K ratings) | 2.0 (154 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.7% of reviews — better | 18.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.1K — better | 154 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #157 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | Clark County School District - Transportation Dept. |
Customer experience
5
CCSD Onboard
User reviews
5
From 6.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Quick access to rewards
- 👍 Helpful for staying organized
- 🚀 Efficient tracking of assignments
Room to improve
- 🚨 Excessive monitoring of bathroom usage
- 🤖 Invasive tracking of student locations
- 🤯 Causing mental health issues and stress
- 🤬 Ruining family/personal relationships
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and bugs
CCSD Onboard
From 154 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful when working
- 👍 Appreciated for safety
- 👍 Good concept
- 👍 Useful for tracking
- 👍 Great when it works
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate bus location
- 🐛 Buses are late
- 🐛 App is slow
- 🐛 App is unreliable
- 🐛 App doesn't work
Bugs and requests
5
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unreliable notifications
- Syncing issues across devices
- Unauthorized access to user data
Requested features
3 requests- More privacy controls
- Flexible bathroom pass system
- Improved user interface and experience
CCSD Onboard
Reported bugs
49 issues- App only works 20-25% of the time
- Bus location inaccurate
- Bus times inaccurate
- App is awfully slow
- Bus location not live
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- App tracking wrong bus
- Bus tracking not showing up
- App signed out unexpectedly
- Cannot sign back in
- Confusing error messages
- App says bus is one stop away but daughter waited 40 minutes
- App says waiting to identify bus
- App is always buffering or can't find bus
- App pauses frequently
- App doesn't work on mobile data
- App kicks user out
- App not connected to server
- App stuck on waiting to identify bus
- Tracking rarely updates
- Latency of 30-120 seconds
- App doesn't run in background
- Bus appears on map after it has gone
- App doesn't show bus until it's gone
- App kicks user out due to not being connected to a server
- App doesn't update
- App says nothing at all
- Date is incorrect
- Cannot change date to correct date
- App fails to pick up child
- App doesn't detect bus location
- App goes blank to a gray screen after sign-in attempt
- App constantly waiting for bus GPS
- App didn't update for 20 minutes
- App won't detect bus location
- Blank white screen when logging in
- Stuck in the gray area after trying to sign in
- Have to exit and re-enter bus schedule for updated location
- App shows ETA of 20 minutes when bus is around the corner
- App freezes during registration
- App freezes during login
- App doesn't work most of the time
- App won't pull current bus, only day before
- App says waiting on GPS data
- App doesn't automatically update moving bus
- App says bus is on other side of town but it's outside
- Student ID is invalid
- Email address is invalid
- 502 Web server error during registration
- Information is invalid for student being added
Requested features
11 requests- Fix the app
- Improve bus tracking accuracy
- Ensure real-time tracking
- Fix login/registration issues
- Improve app performance
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- Allow students to be alerted when bus is within proximity
- Allow users to adjust proximity alert range
- Fix mobile data issue
- Update the app
- Offer dark mode
- Improve UX design
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
CCSD Onboard
No in-app purchases
