The Cobb County School District had announced that McCleskey Middle School in East Cobb has a new principal.
She is veteran educator Dr. Tonya Polk, who most recently has been an assistant principal at Sprayberry High School.
Her appointment was ratified by the Cobb County Board of Education Thursday night after an executive session.
Polk, whose appointment is effective July 1, succeeds Dr. Andrea Jenkins-Mann, who was reassigned to principal at Cobb Horizon School, an alternative high school program.
Jenkins-Mann had been at McCleskey since 2017.
Several other schools in East Cobb will be getting new principals in the 2026-27 school year that begins Aug. 1.
They include Dr. Kristi Lankford at Timber Ridge Elementary School, Dr. Christina Moll at Addison Elementary School and Lauren Rabil at Kincaid Elementary School.
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