ROCKLAND, Maine — The principal of the elementary school in Rockland is leaving for another job, four weeks before the start of the school year.
Lynsey Ward has submitted her resignation as principal of South Elementary School. The Regional School Unit 13 Board will formally receive the resignation at its Thursday evening meeting.
Ward has been principal of the school since November 2012. Before that she had been a teacher and assistant principal at the kindergarten through fifth-grade school that had an enrollment last year of 271 students. In 2015, Ward was principal of both South Elementary School and the adjacent Rockland District Middle School.
The middle schools are consolidating, and Ward would have been principal of only the South Elementary School this school year.
Ward is accepting a position as principal of the Jefferson Village School in the Lincoln County town of Jefferson. The Jefferson school is kindergarten through eighth grade with an enollment of 180 students. The school also is closer to her home, she said.
“The students, colleagues, and community have been great to work with, and it has been my pleasure to serve them in South School and [Rockland District Middle School]. While I will miss all of that, I am also looking forward to this new opportunity to work in a K-8 community school,” Ward said Sunday in an email.
RSU 13 Superintendent John McDonald said Friday the district is advertising for a new principal.