Superintendent’s Message
The United School District is located at 10780 Route 56 Highway East, Armagh, PA 15920 in Indiana County. The geographic size of United School District is 132.4 square miles and serves the borough of Armagh and the townships of Brush Valley, Buffington, East Wheatfield, and West Wheatfield. The District has two schools serving a total of approximately 1,100 students -- United Elementary School with students in Grades Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 6 and United Junior/Senior High School with students in Grades 7 through 12.
Now that school has started, and summer is reaching its end, it’s my pleasure to welcome you back to school. Whether you are student, staff, parent, alumni, or community member, remember that you are always welcome at United. Not only do we welcome you to visit, we also welcome you to visit us vicariously through our many forms of communication. We are expanding the ways that we can reach out to our community so that you can share in our news and accomplishments.
Information for the school year can be found inourquarterly newsletter. You can always find information, too, on the District website, . Our athletic director will be keeping you up-to-date on all things athletic via Twitter@UHS_Lions. And, this year, we will be introducing our ownFacebook page so that you can stay in touch with the schools’ happenings. In order to keep you informed, we have been working on adding social media as an effort towards increased communication. We understand that social media has become part of the mainstream, and we need to become involved in order to improve our communications with you.
Besides improved communications, other improvements have been taking place, as well. This summer,aheating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) renovation is taking place at the Junior/Senior High School. In working with our energy savings contractor, McClure Company, and Peoples Natural Gas, we will be able to provide high school students with a more regulated gas heating and air conditioning system throughout the building this year.
We are always looking at ways to improve our schools. Together, with the help of our United community, you are welcome to communicate your ideas and solutions of improvement. The District’s Vision – In partnership with our community, we seek to provide a high-quality and meaningful education, which prepares all students to be contributors in an ever-changing, diverse community and global society -- is to educate our United students with your help. Through the collaboration of thoughtful and understanding minds, we want to work with you to continuously improve our District for the success of our students.
Best wishes to all for a successful and productive 2016-2017 school year.
--Dr. Barbara Parkins