Four public schools in East Cobb will have new principals for the next school year.
The first wave of principal moves for the 2019-20 school year were announced Wednesday by the Cobb Board of Education, after it came out of an executive session.
Two of the six East Cobb high schools have new new leadership. Peter Giles will move over from Wheeler High School to Kell High School, while the new principal at Wheeler will be Paul Gillihan, who has been the principal at Griffin Middle School.
Kell principal Andy Bristow has been appointed the new principal at Durham Middle School.
The new principal at Dodgen High School will be Patricia Alford, who’s been the principal at Durham. Loralee Hill moves from Dodgen to Griffin Middle School.
At the elementary school level, Timber Ridge will be led by a familiar face in August. Shannon McGill, a former assistant principal there and at Powers Ferry Elementary School, is returning after serving as principal at Vaughan Elementary School. She succeeds Jeff Castle, who has resigned.
The new appointments will be effective July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
The Cobb County School District also announced that key members of Superintendent Chris Ragsdale’s cabinet have been reappointed, including chief of staff Kevin Daniel, deputy superintendent John Adams, chief financial officer Brad Johnson, chief leadership officer Sherri Hill, chief academic officer Jennifer Lawson, chief strategy and accountability officer John Floresta and several assistant superintendents.
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That is the wrong photo of Paul Gillihan.
That’s been corrected. Thank you.