The mission of Pacific Union School is to educate our students to become lifelong learners who will contribute productively to the world they inherit. Pacific Union addresses the diverse needs of all students. In alliance with the community, Pacific Union’s highly qualified staff provides a safe and healthy environment where students experience opportunities to become positive and successful citizens.

We believe:

1. In maintaining a highly qualified, dedicated staff that is positive role models for our students.

2. In surrounding our students with positive influences and a healthy, safe, and caring environment.

3. In supporting and celebrating diversity and showing mutual respect for one another.

4. There are many successful ways of teaching and learning, and all student will be given opportunities to be successful.

5. In supporting students’ opportunities to learn in our local and natural environment.

6. In supporting the involvement of the school’s families and the greater community in the school’s activities.

7. Students learn from exploration experiences and will be given opportunities to exchange ideas in their educational programs and environmental surroundings.

8. In supporting strong relationships between home and school.

9. The school has a responsibility to the greater community and should serve as an essential community center.

10. All students have value and education is an important step to their future.

Pacific Union School is an elementary school including grades Transitional Kindergarten through Eight in the Pacific Union School District serving children in the community of Arcata, which includes the areas of Pacific Manor, Vassaide Estates, Valley West, West End Road, North Bank Road and Hunts Drive. School enrollment is currently 532.

Pacific Union has an outstanding staff consisting of 25 regular education teachers that include teachers who specialize in math, science, language arts, and history in the 7/8th grades, one music teacher, one physical education teacher, one speech specialist, one counselor, one behaviorist, one social worker, two special education teachers, one reading specialist, one English Learner technician, one Library Technician, one Technology Director, one part time nurse, 16 classroom assistants and two administrators. 100 percent of our teaching staff have taken advanced college classes and participated in professional growth workshops.