Laurel Highlands School District is a school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the2010 census, the population was 136,606. The county is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area....

. It serves North

North Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

North Union Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,140 at the 2000 census. The Laurel Highlands School District serves the township....

 and South Union Townships

South Union Township, Pennsylvania

South Union Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 11,337 at the 2000 census.Villages within the township include Hopwood, Hatfield, Hutchinson, Chadville, South Uniontown, Leith, and Revere....

. The current superintendent is Dr. Gary Brain. District enrollment is 3591.

Creation of LHSD

LHSD was created in 1965, merging rivals North Union and South Union School Districts. The change did not become official until the 1967-1968 School Term. Students attended High School in the former high schools until completion of the current high school in 1972.

Elementary schools

• Hatfield Elementary - was constructed in 1952 and renovated in 1991. A new roof and windows were added in 2006. Hatfield is located in South Union Township and is named for the former Hatfield family farm on which the school's property was constructed on.

• Hutchinson Elementary - was built in 1965 and recently underwent a major renovation and addition in 2006. The school is located in the Hutchinson section of South Union Township.

• R.W. Clark Elementary - located near the High School, the school was built in 1962 and renovated in 2000. It is named after a former Laurel Highlands school principal.

• George C. Marshall Elementary - was constructed in 1966 and renovated in 1992. A four classroom addition was built in 2005. The school is named after the government official who was the Secretary of State at one time in the 1940s.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School was part of the school district until it was closed after the 2003-2004 School year. John F. Kennedy School was later turned into a mental health treatment facility, called New Directions, for school age children.

Laurel Highlands Middle School

The building opened as South Laurel Junior High School in 1968, housing grades seven through nine. Originally, students from the district's three elementary schools in South Union Township (Areford, Hatfield, and Hutchinson) attended South Laurel Junior High. When North Laurel, the other junior high, was closed in 1984, it was re-named Laurel Highlands Junior High School. Ninth grade was moved to the high school, and the new merged junior high housed all Laurel Highlands students in grades seven and eight. After an extensive renovation was completed in August 2003, the school was renamed Laurel Highlands Middle School, with students in grades six through eight attending.

Laurel Highlands Senior High School

The Laurel Highlands Senior High School is located at 300 Bailey Avenue. The school was built in 1972 and renovated in 1994. The current principals are Mr. Diamond, Mr. Kalich, and Mrs. Dicenzo. The schools colors are red, white, and blue. The school mascot is the "Mustang". 1158 students attend the high school. Dr. Peter M. Rhee

Peter M. Rhee

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, the Physician to Arizona

Arizona

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 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Giffords

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 and the other patients in the 2011 Tucson shooting

2011 Tucson shooting

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 graduated from Laurel Highlands in 1979.

Athletics

Sport	Boys	Girls
Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	Class AAAA
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...	Class AAAA	Class AAA
Cross Country Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...	Class AAA	Class AAA
Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...	Class AAA
Soccer	Class AAA	Class AAA
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....	Class AAAA
Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...  and Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...	Class AAA	Class AAA
Track and Field Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...	Class AAA	Class AAA
Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...		Class AAA
Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...	Class AAA
Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...		Class AAA

External links

• Laurel Highlands School District Web Page
• Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Assn. Website