Ten Atlanta schools get new principals

Ten Atlanta schools will have new principals next school year.

Ellis Duncan will become principal of Douglass High School, one of the city's lowest performing high schools and a school that has churned through principals at the rate of about one every two years.

Gail Johnson will be principal of Sutton Middle School and Kevin Scott will lead Young Middle School, which has also seen high principal turnover in recent years.

Other new principals are:

Anyee Moreland – Cleveland Avenue Elementary School
Desmond Moore - Fain Elementary School
Brent McBride – Jackson Elementary School
Cynthia Gunner – Peyton Forest Elementary School
Diamond Jack – Michael R. Hollis Innovation Academy, the new K-8 school replacing Bethune Elementary that will be located in the former Kennedy Middle School building
Susan Crim McClendon – Woodson Park Elementary, the new school created by merging Woodson Primary and Grove Park Intermediate schools
Lincoln Woods – Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy, the new school created by merging Connally and Venetian Hills Elementary schools

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