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Four of Wake County’s biggest high schools will have new principals when students return this fall.
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On Tuesday, the Wake County school system announced new principals for Apex, Enloe, Millbrook and Panther Creek high schools. The new principals will start on July 1.
The principal changes are mostly due to retirements at the end of the school year. This month’s graduations will mark the final public act for the retiring principals.
The new principals will take over during a time when Wake is making budget cuts such as reducing the number of high school assistant principals to save money.
Here are the four new principals:
Christopher Lineberry will replace Elaine Hoffmann as the principal of Apex High School. Hoffmann is retiring after having led the school since 2019.
Lineberry is currently principal of Casa Grande Union High School in Arizona. He’s an education leader, author and podcaster, according to his website.
Lineberry will receive a salary of $148,519.
Eric Rosen will replace Jacqueline Jordan as principal of Enloe High School in Raleigh. Jordan is retiring after having led the school since 2021.
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Rosen is currently principal of Carnage Middle School in Raleigh. Retired educator Steve Mares will serve as Carnage’s interim principal from July 1 to Aug. 31 while Wake searches for Rosen’s replacement.
Rosen will receive a salary of $137,869.
Monica Sawyer will replace Brian Saunders as the principal of Millbrook High School in Raleigh. Saunders left Millbrook after four years to become the school system’s senior director for regional achievement and school support.
Sawyer will return to Wake after having been an assistant principal at South Garner High School. She’s currently principal of Riverwood Middle School in Johnston County.
Sawyer will receive a salary of $139,625.
Stephanie Raiford will replace Greg Decker as principal of Panther Creek High School in Cary. Decker is retiring after having led the school since 2019.
Raiford is currently principal of Mills Park Middle School in Cary. Retired educator Sandy Chambers will serve as Mills Park’s interim principal from July 1 to Aug. 31 while Wake searches for Raiford’s replacement.
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Raiford will receive a salary of $138,125.