Welcome to Education at Remsen Union

The Remsen Union Community School District has a stable student enrollment of approximately 370 students. The district is served by 40 teachers, two administrators, and numerous support staff. At Remsen-Union the administration, Board of Education, teachers and staff share in the commitment to strive toward excellence in all our academic and extracurricular activities to enable all students to reach their full potential.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Remsen-Union Community School District is to assure that each Student acquires the knowledge, skills, and motivation to become a lifelong learner and successful productive citizen in a diverse, technological, ever-changing society.

Faculty & Staff Highlights

• Committed to teaching ALL students
• Dedicated to upgrading education
• Low pupil-teacher ratio
• Encouraged to improve through mentoring and further education
• Integrated technology into classrooms
• Registered nurse available full-time
• New science classroom, administrative offices and state-of-the-art media center
• Preschool through 12 th grades on one campus
  

  P.O. Box 450
511 Roosevelt Street
Remsen, IA 51050
www.remsen-union.k12.ia.us

Special Programs

• Renaissance Academic Program
• Talented and Gifted Education
• Distance Learning Courses/ICN
• Post-Secondary College Course Options
• Articulation Agreements, WITCC & NITC
• Accelerated Reader Program
• Early Childhood Special Education
• 4-year-old preschool
• Transitional Kindergarten
• Resource Room Pre K-12
• Title I Reading K-5
• Comprehensive Guidance program
• A comprehensive Special Program that serves a variety of needs

Organizations

HAVE Club (Community Service/Citizenship Club)
National Honor Society
Student Leadership Team
DECA

Extra Curricular Activities

Career and Technology Programs

• Finance, Marketing
• Comprehensive Industrial Technology Program
• Journalism classes produce the yearbook and write weekly articles for the Remsen Bell
• School-to-work students job shadow and enter the workplace, learning teamwork, self-management, and problem-solving skills on-the-job.
• Child Development students intern in classrooms to better understand children's needs

Community Involvement

Remsen-Union Activities Boosters
District Technology Committee
School Improvement Committee
Remsen-Union Family Connections
Remsen-Union Education Foundation Instructional Partnership with Remsen, St. Mary’s and Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn

Cultural Experiences

• HAVE Club trips to New York and Washington, D.C. every 2 years
• Music trips every 4 years
• Miscellaneous field trips to points of interest
• Foreign Student Exchange Program

 Phone : 712.786.1101
(Middle & High)
712.786.1192 (Elementary)
Fax : (712) 786-1104

Special Announcements for the R-U School District

TEACHER OF THE YEAR NOMINATIONS

The Remsen-Union school district is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Teacher of the Year. Anyone associated with the Remsen-Union school district may nominate a teacher. Nomination forms can be found by clicking the link below.

2012 Remsen-Union Teacher of the Year Nomination

NEW CONSTRUCTION PAGE ADDED

You can new view pictures of the construction of the new multipurpose room and the new locker room area. The pictures will be updated as construction permits.

Sign Up for District Text Announcements

Remsen-Union is using a new messaging system this year to relay important announcements. The system is through the Le Mars Daily Sentinel and will typically send out the alert or information within 30 seconds to one minute. If you would like this free system on your cell phone, go the Le Mars Sentinel web site http://www.lemarssentinel.com/ and click the text alert tab. You will then fill in the required phone information and select the text alerts that you would like to receive.

Construction Page