EA Schools Unveil New Official Logo

Streamlined Wildcat mascot will being appearing in district

By T.J. Martin
The Tube City Almanac
September 29, 2025
Posted in: North Versailles Twp. News

EA’s newly designed Wildcat logo is displayed on a video monitor. The official logo will begin replacing “ad hoc” mascots that previously were used around the district. (T.J. Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)

There’s a new “cat” at the East Allegheny School District, but it’s not an incoming freshman or a transfer student.

This summer, the school board of the district, which serves students living in East McKeesport, North Versailles, Wall and Wilmerding, was presented with its new logo designed by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit.

AIU is a regional public education agency which provides services to Allegheny County’s suburban school districts as well as non-public, charter and vocational-technical schools. It also serves as a liaison between schools and the Pennsylvania Department of Education and is one of 29 intermediate units throughout the state.

Dan Rinkus of the marketing & strategic communication department of the AIU, offered the school board the services of the AIU in October 2024, advising them then that a design would take several months and go through several revisions.

After the district opted to retain the wildcat as its mascot, Rinkus said, the logo was created using electric blue and yellow and depicting the head of a wildcat in three-quarters profile. The initials E and A of the district’s name touch in a style Rinkus said was similar to the letters L and A in the logo of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The AIU is now working with the district in the implementation phase of the project, utilizing the logo on items including the district website and the cover of the student handbooks given to students at the start of the school year. In the presentation of the logo to the board, the logo was depicted on shirts and baseball caps.

Implementing a new logo throughout the district — replacing ad hoc wildcat logos used previously — will not happen overnight, Rinkus said. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” he said.

Also new at the district this year is the lighting at Churchman Stadium. In a project that closed the stadium from mid-June to mid-August and cost $550,000, Musco Lighting removed the existing lights and replaced them with new LED lights.

In addition to the new lights, the school board at its August meeting voted to accept a bid of $191,398 from Runaway Inc. for a new stadium sound system.

Originally published September 29, 2025.

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