District: Perry Local School District
Location: Perry High School (Grades 7–12)
Application Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026
Contact: Tyler Turner, Incoming Superintendent, tyler.turner@mycommodores.org
Position Overview:
Perry Local School District has a High School Principal vacancy effective the beginning of the 2026–2027 contract year. Perry High School serves students in grades 7–12.
The Principal provides educational leadership for the building and oversees the management, administration, and facilitation of the school’s daily operations, activities, and events. The primary responsibility of this position is to provide the leadership required to promote and sustain an effective learning environment for all students.
The successful candidate reports to the Superintendent and serves as a participating member of the district leadership team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree or equivalent
- Appropriate Ohio Department of Education administrative licensure
- Minimum of three (3) years of teaching experience
- Principal experience preferred
Key Leadership Competencies:
The successful candidate will demonstrate strategic and analytical thinking, along with strong interpersonal skills, through the following:
- Provide strong leadership to staff and students by fostering a values-driven culture grounded in equity and setting high expectations, particularly for students who have traditionally been vulnerable to failure
- Build cohesive teams within a 7–12 setting and guide teams to establish and achieve goals
- Create a climate in which staff are motivated to perform at their best in a unified spirit of student success
- Assess individual strengths and leverage them to maximize performance
- Cultivate confidence and optimism so that adults assume positive intentions
- Promote healthy adult accountability
- Advance multicultural understanding and ensure equitable treatment and opportunity for all
- Support culturally responsive instruction and leadership
- Demonstrate perseverance and a results-oriented mindset in the face of resistance or setbacks
- Build and maintain trust through integrity and diplomacy
- Address conflict with tact
- Admit mistakes
- Model confidentiality and professionalism
Application Requirements:
- Letter of Interest
- Current Resume with References
- Copy of Current Principal License
Hiring Timeline:
- Application deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026
- Tentative interviews: March 9–13, 2026
- Selected candidate recommended for Board approval: March 18, 2026
- If a suitable candidate is not secured by March 13, 2026, the posting will remain open and the District will continue the candidate search
To Apply: Submit application materials to Gabe.Reichenbach@jfs.ohio.gov with “7–12 High School Principal” in the subject line before March 6, 2026.
