Herington Unified School District #487

The Mission of USD 487 is to:

Engage children and youth, families, faculty, staff and community in creating positive, safe, nurturing, learning environments and experiences, which support all of our students to become responsible citizens and life long learners, successful in today’s world. 

Our primary mission is with our children and youth, but we must all be students.

PRIORITIES

1.         Retain and maintain quality educators who have high student expectations, and

            consistently evaluate their effectiveness for individual students.

2.         Make sure all students can read and demonstrate appropriate math skills by the end of

            third grade.

3.         Manage resources to provide state-of-the-art technology to enhance and assist learning

            and prepare students to integrate technology in ways that promote life-long success.

4.         Maintain high individual student achievement.

5.         Develop community and school partnerships by sharing resources to create innovative 

            opportunities for learning and teaching

6.        Build family, faculty, staff, and student partnerships, which support learning