Prospective Family: Join The Pride
Enrollment for the 2024-25 school year is open now!
Welcome to The School District of University City. We are so excited that you plan to "Join the Pride." The Lion is the District's official mascot. U. City Schools staff, students, parents and caregivers share the Heart of a Lion in all that we do to support our children and our community.
When you "Join the Pride," you enter a community where authentic relationships and well-being are valued. Students learn best when they are loved, connected and well. Under the District's vision of Learning Reimagined, we offer modern, rigorous and relevant instruction supported by great teachers and an engaged community of learning and wellness partners. Racial equity, student voice, social justice, community service, Restorative Practices and environmental sustainability matter in our schools.
Each school has its own traditions and themes, starting in the District's preschool and four neighborhood elementary schools. All students come together in sixth grade when they enter Brittany Woods Middle School - a community that presents them with dozens of activities and electives, including beekeeping, environmental sustainability, computer programming, dance, strings, chorus and more. In ninth grade, students join the dynamic academic community at University City High School, which loudly celebrates its accomplishments with the phrase "U Time!"
If you are a new family intending to send your student(s) to The School District of University City for the 2024-25 school year, please begin the process to register your child now!
Explore The School District of University City
- Identify your neighborhood elementary school with the District's boundary map.
- Learn more about the District's vision of Learning Reimagined.
- Review a variety of fact sheets about the District, its services and each of the District's seven schools.
- Meet Superintendent Sharonica Hardin-Bartley, named one of 5 Superintendents to Watch in 2022.
- Kindergarten Open Houses will be scheduled in the spring, at each elementary school.
Check the Website Calendar in the Spring for details including registration.
- Read our newsmagazine PRIDE, published twice a year.
- Learn more about athletics in the District.
- Read news coverage about the District and its many student projects and initiatives.
- Plan a school visit by contacting the school principal:
- Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Center: Principal Crystal Cauley at ccauley@ucityschools.org
- Barbara C. Jordan Elementary School: Principal Dorlita Adams at dadams@ucityschools.org
- Flynn Park Elementary School: Interim Principal Darion Murdock at damurdok@ucityschools.org
- Jackson Park Elementary School: Principal Jim Triplett at jtriplett@ucityschools.org
- Pershing Elementary School: Principal Deitra Colquitt at dcolquitt@ucityschools.org
- Brittany Woods Middle School: Principal Justin Davis at judavis@ucityschools.org
- University City High School: Principal Michael Peoples at mpeoples@ucityschools.org or Registrar Robyn Murry at rmurry@ucityschools.org.
- Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (or search handle @UCitySchools for all District social media platforms).
- Check out our district calendar for public events. Catch a dance or musical performance. Enjoy a school musical. Take-in a fine arts show or an entrepreneurial fair. And much, much more.
- More questions? Email communications@ucityschools.org