Abba, on Shabbos, do yeshiva kids ride busses to shul to their friends or do they, heaven forbid, walk? You keep throwing around the 2.5 miles figure. Are you implying that no child lives within 2.5 miles of a school? That they all live exactly 2.5 mes away and this require courtesy bussing?
I don’t have the statistics, but I would venture to say that over half of the public school kids in question live within a mile of a school