Battle Ground Public Schools announced administrative changes for the 2016-17 school year. The administrators will begin their new positions July 1.
Primary schools
• Captain Strong Primary School: Angela Knight will be the new principal. She currently is assistant principal of Tukes Valley Primary. Michael Michaud, the current principal, will be principal at Pleasant Valley Primary.
• Daybreak Primary School: The new principal will be Matt Kauffman. He currently is assistant principal of Yacolt Primary. Jill Dutchess, the current principal, is retiring.
• Pleasant Valley Primary: Michael Michaud will be principal. He takes over for Ron Hutchison, interim principal.
• Tukes Valley Primary: Anna Leeper will be the new assistant principal. She currently is a moderate disabilities and life skills teacher at Butler Acres Elementary School in Kelso. Angela Knight, the current assistant principal, is moving to Captain Strong Primary.
• Yacolt Primary: Lynnell Tsugawa-Murray will be the new assistant principal. She is currently an associate administrator at Woodland Intermediate School. Matt Kauffman, current assistant principal, is moving to Daybreak Primary.
Middle schools
• Amboy Middle School: April Vonderharr will be the assistant principal at Amboy Middle School. She is replacing Steve Michaelis, who is retiring. Vonderharr is currently an administrative intern at Amboy Middle School.
• Pleasant Valley Middle School: Steve Hoskins, assistant principal, is retiring. Andy Schoonover will be the new assistant principal. He currently is athletic director and assistant principal at Prairie High School.
• Tukes Valley Middle School: Principal Diana Harris is retiring. The new principal will be Brian Amundson, who currently is dean of students at Jemtegaard Middle School in Washougal.
High schools
• Prairie High School: Jason Castro will be the new athletic director and assistant principal. Castro is currently an administrative intern and principal designee at R.A. Long and Kelso high schools. He has taught at Kelso and R.A. Long and also coached football, basketball and baseball. Andy Schoonover, Prairie’s current assistant principal, will be the assistant principal at Pleasant Valley Middle.
District office
• Shelly Whitten will be the director of human resources, a position that has been vacant for multiple years. Currently she is the district’s director of instructional leadership for secondary education. Before that she was a principal at Daybreak and Chief Umtuch middle schools.
• Annie Lamberto will be the assistant director of special services, a new position. Lamberto currently is a special services resource room teacher at Prairie High School.
• Angela Allen will be the director of instructional leadership for secondary education. She is replacing Shelly Whitten, who is transferring to human resources. Allen is currently the principal of Monticello Middle School in Longview.
