Your options are finite. Your child can:

A) continue to attend her failing public school;
B) attend a better public school farther from home;
C) attend a private school; or
D) be homeschooled.

"A" is obviously not in your child's best interest. The education your child receives in large part will determine what kind of future she has. Don't shortchange her by denying her a good education.

"C" is an option if you can afford it. My sense from your message is that it is not an option.

"D" is not a good option unless you have the education, training, skills, and temperment to learn how to properly instruct your child in a wide variety of topics and deal with the administrative details involved.

If private school is not an option, then "B" is your only real choice.

You do not say if you work outside the home. If not, you can reduce the time your child spends on a school bus by transporting her yourself or by carpooling with parents of neighborhood students who, like your daughter, have opted for a better school.

If your concern is not her time on a school bus, but instead is your own time and (in)convenience in, for example, attending school events at a distant public school, that concern should obviously take a back seat to your daughter's educational needs.

One of your key responsibilities as a parent is getting your daughter a good education. Inconvenience - yours or hers - is secondary. Your daughter trusts you to act in her best interest. Get her out of that failing school.

P.S. Focus on the positive. Students in failing schools didn't always have the right they now have (once their school fails twice) to transfer to a better school. The transfer costs the public school system money, especially since transportation costs have increased in recent years. You and your daughter are LUCKY to have the choice to transfer. How horrible if your daughter had to STAY in that disaster of a six-time-F school!