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Beatty Secondary School

Interviewed on Channel NewsAsia in February 2007, in a discussion on school upgrading, principal Boo Hian Kok expressed the view that schools should continue to ask for better facilities, provided they are able to justify their requests and prove they will benefit the students and teachers.

Henry E. Chambers

Soon he was a job hopper, having in 1881–1882 undertaken the principalship of Mineral Springs High School in Mineral Springs in Howard County near Texarkana in southwestern Arkansas.

Morganza High School

John B. Fournet, later a supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, lieutenant governor, and associate and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, was the principal of Morganza High School in the 1916-1917 academic year.


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Ben Shuldiner

Upon founding the High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow in Brooklyn, New York, he became the youngest high school Principal in New York state history.

Bernard Corfield

He was Principal of the CMS School at Batala from then until 1928; and then held a similar post at Dera Ismail Khan until 1935.

Borah High School

Cedric Minter, CFL & NFL running back, high school principal, class of 1977

Britannia High

The show starred Sapphire Elia, Georgina Hagen, Mitch Hewer, Rana Roy, Matthew James Thomas and Marcquelle Ward, as well as Adam Garcia as the dance mentor, Lorraine Pilkington as the music mentor and Mark Benton as the school principal and acting mentor.

Calixte

Calixte Savoie, a Canadian businessman, school principal, teacher, and politician

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Dennis M. Imperial, P.C. the newly assigned parish priest of the St. Catherine of Alexandria became the new director of CNJP with Mrs. Marcelita M. Martinez, as school principal.

Mrs. Batocabe was then the high school principal of Maryhill Academy on sabbatical for her doctoral studies at De La Salle University, Manila.

Colmar Manor, Maryland

John Sylvester White, television actor best known as vice principal/high school principal Mr. Woodman on Welcome Back, Kotter, was a boyhood resident and son of Colmar Manor's first mayor.

Cotulla Independent School District

Lyndon B. Johnson was principal of Cotulla's Wellhausen school (September 1928–May 1929), for $125/month.

Doris Schattschneider

Schattschneider was born in Staten Island; her mother, Charlotte Lucille Ingalls Wood, taught Latin and was herself the daughter of a Staten Island school principal, and her father, Robert W. Wood, Jr., worked as a bridge engineer for New York City.

Francis David Millet Brown

Between 1868 and 1873 Brown was employed as Assistant Principal of Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee.

Frederick Gibbs

Frederick Giles Gibbs (1866–1953), New Zealand school principal, educationalist and community leader

Garfield Heights City School District

Named after World War II Medal of Honor recipient William A. Foster, Garfield's first Elementary School serves children Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and is currently under Principal Karen Ruane and Associate Principal Sandy Powers.

Gregory Hodge

Gregory M. Hodge was the principal for over a decade at The Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) in Harlem, where he was noted for his tough love, "No Excuses" approach.

Ian Lambert

Ian Peter Morrison Lambert (born 9 October 1960) is the Australian born Principal of The Scots College, a Sydney GPS School, and an educational author and editor.

James E. Taylor High School

He began his career as a teacher in North Zulch and then a high school principal in Junction.

Jessica Capshaw

Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw, and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal.

John Christie

John Traill Christie (1899–1980), headmaster of Repton School and Westminster School, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford

Joseph C. Hart

Hart was a lawyer by profession, who also served as a Colonel in the National Guard and as a school principal.

Joseph Kearney

He then became a high school principal in the state of Washington when he was hired by Onalaska High School (Onalaska, Washington), where he also taught and coached.

Kristina Axén Olin

Axén Olin is a music teacher by profession and served until her appointment as Social Service Commissioner as the assistant principal of Maria Elementar, a private school in the Stockholm district of Södermalm.

Mary Julia Baldwin

In 1863, when the Civil War threatened to close the seminary, Baldwin became its principal.

Nui Onoue

In the end of 1970, according to former high school principal Hiraoka Shizuto, Onoue became a monk at Mount Kōya's Kongōbuji Hōon'in temple and adapted the name of Junkō.

Poestenkill, New York

Future president James A. Garfield considered a job as high school principal in Poestenkill in 1856, though lost it to another applicant.

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne

The building was completed in time for the school's first year, 1875, with Charles Henry Pearson as founding Principal.

Queenwood School for Girls

The two women had met in 1918, at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba, Queensland, where Lawrance was Principal, and Rennie first assistant-mistress.

Robbie Gould

Although originally interested in professional soccer, he eventually chose football and asked his high school principal to send a letter of recommendation to Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, who invited him to try out as a freshman walk-on.

Ron Rodecker

Rodecker was an educator for 21 years and served for two years as an elementary school principal on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.

Sean Burrage

Sean is the son of former United States District Judge Michael Burrage and Aletha Burrage, an elementary school principal.

Smokin' in the Boys Room

"Smokin' in the Boys Room" is a song originally recorded by Brownsville Station in 1973 on their album Yeah!, reaching #3 on the U.S. charts, and later covered in 1985 by Mötley Crüe, with the Crüe's version accompanied by a conceptual music video featuring Michael Berryman as the school principal.

Theodric Romeyn Beck

He served as the Principal of The Albany Academy from 1817 to 1848, where he encouraged the future curator of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry, to enroll as a student and later serve as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1826.

Youth Communication

Ric Burns directed a video about the organization called Changing Lives, One Story at a Time, and Michael "Boogie" Pinckney directed Alternative High, a story about one Youth Communication writer's journey from high school dropout to high school principal that accompanies the Real Men program.