Superintendent Search
The Mount Vernon City School District is launching a search for its next Superintendent of Schools. The Mount Vernon Board of Education hired Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA) to conduct the search. The Board is aiming to select a superintendent by May to start in the 2025-2026 school year.
As part of the superintendent search, the Board has authorized a community forum with HYA consultants on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at Mount Vernon Honor Academy from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The community forum will also be livestreamed at www.mtvernoncsd.org/superintendent-search.
The board has also authorized HYA consultants to conduct focus groups from Tuesday to Thursday, February 4 to 6. Focus group invites will be sent to stakeholder groups throughout the community.
A survey has been released to gauge the state of the district, the desired leadership profile for the next superintendent and other considerations for the search. Click here to submit your responses.
In its community forum, focus groups and survey, HYA is looking to answer three questions to help find the right candidate:
- What are the strengths of the district?
- What are some of the challenges that the future superintendent must address?
- What attributes would the ideal candidate need to be successful in this district?
The purpose of these engagements is to find the qualities that the Mount Vernon community is most looking for in a candidate and to assist HYA in finding the best match for the job.
HYA will widely advertise the job, select the best candidates, and present those candidates to the Board. Following interviews and an extensive background search of the preferred candidate, a decision will be made and announced to the public.
Updates will be provided continuously via this page as the search progresses.
Superintendent Search Timeline
- Planning meeting with Board: January 23
- Community Focus Groups February: 3-7
- Online Survey: January 30 - February 7 (11:59 p.m.)
- Leadership Profile Report to the Board: February 13
- Slate presented to Board: March 24
- Board Initial Interviews: March 29
- Board Finalists Interviews: April 5
- Board Selects Preferred Candidate: April 5
- Background Checks (Third-party): April 5-12
- Target for Public Announcement: April 15
- Superintendent assumes Responsibilities: July 1, 2025
Community Forum with HYA
Contact HYA
Edward McCormick
HYA Associate
edwardmccormick@hyasearch.com
(845) 264-1222
Karen Geelan, Ed.D.
HYA Associate
karengeelan@hyasearch.com
(716) 440-1144