Pottstown to see 30 new faces in new school year

Pottstown schools will see more personnel changes than any other area district when school starts on Monday.

Of the 30 new faces joining the Pottstown School District this year, 11 are at Pottstown Middle School, which just welcomed a new principal last year, and another six are at Pottstown high School.

On the administration side of the equation, Stephen Park, the director of career and technical education is retiring and being replaced by Jeff Delaney, who is moving up from assistant principal at the high school.

His post at the high school is being filled by Dave Livengood.

The new assistant principal at the middle school is Danny Perez, who is fluent in both Spanish and English and previously worked at a school in the Bronx, N.Y.

Matt Miller is the new director of co-curricular activities, He previously worked at two Philadelphia charter schools.

Kimberly Perry-Malloy is the district’s new director of nursing.

At Franklin Elementary School, Kevin Downes has retired as principal and is being replaced by Beth Kramer, a graduate of St. Joseph’s University who was most recently the principal of the Bell Avenue Elementary School in the William Penn School District.

The district has also lost 12 van drivers when it contracted the service to an outside vendor in a budgetcutting move in June. Five classroom assistants have also left the district.

This article first appeared as a post in The Digital Notebook blog.