Three finalists apiece will be interviewed for the two elementary school principal positions. Out of the six, three candidates currently work in the district.
The superintendent's office says there are now three finalists each for the open principal positions at the South and Carroll elementary schools. Interim principals were hired at both schools in recent months, following the promotion of Cara Murtagh to Assistant Superintendent from the Carroll last summer and the retirement of Maryellen McGrath from the South at the end of January. The South School finalists are Katelin Kennedy, Matthew Fusco and Tracy Smith. Kennedy has been at the school for nine years, the last three as Assistant Principal before serving as Interim Principal as of Feb. 1. Fusco is the principal at Great Oak Elementary School in Danvers and Smith is an eighth grade housemaster at Higgins Middle School, where she has …
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Thomas Carroll School
60 Northend St, Peabody, MA
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South Memorial School
16 Maple Street Ext, Peabody, MA
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Mastrocola says he hopes to have new high school principal on board for July 1. Principal searches also underway for Carroll and South elementary schools.
Peabody Schools Superintendent Joe Mastrocola says the current pool of candidates for the high school principal job just confirms that it was the right decision last summer to keep Ed Sapienza on for one more year. Sapienza had retired in June, but then agreed to stay on for another year in an interim capacity, as a full-fledged effort was launched to find a permanent hire. Mastrocola declined to comment on the candidates thus far (the application deadline closed on Friday), other than to say the pool was competitive and contained qualified people for the job. He informed the School Committee Tuesday night that 13 people had applied and a screening committee, which also included five high school students, would narrow down that list and …
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Peabody Veterans Memorial High School
485 Lowell St, Peabody, MA
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Thomas Carroll School
60 Northend St, Peabody, MA
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South Memorial School
16 Maple Street Ext, Peabody, MA
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South School Principal Maryellen McGrath says being a teacher was a lifelong ambition -- a dream that started when she was a little girl growing up in Peabody.
Maryellen McGrath joked that she was 12 when she first decided to become a teacher in her hometown. The length of her career in Peabody would almost bear that out. McGrath, 62, has spent 41 years in the city's elementary schools and will finally be retiring on Jan. 31. "This was a very difficult decision for me. I was eligible for full retirement six years ago, but I was able to fulfill one of my personal goals of becoming a principal," McGrath wrote in a letter Nov. 2 notifying Superintendent Joe Mastrocola of her plans. "Each year I have considered retirement, but I have found it impossible to leave the dedicated consummate educators, the wonderful staff, and my love for the students here at the South Memorial School," she wrote. McGrath…
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Mom2
10:18 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Maureen Malionke I agree with you! Mrs. McGrath was helpful and if you needed to talk to her, she was their for you...Was she perfect ? No, but no one is...She did say good bye to her staff, her staff had a retirement party for her... and the year is not over yet, and I am sure she will be back...No one knows what her health situation is, so maybe we shouldnt assume anything....People should … more ›