- January 15, 2025
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This story has been updated. The school district originally said the principals were not retained.
Flagler Palm Coast High School principal Greg Schwartz and Wadsworth Elementary School principal Mary Kate Parton will not return next year, a district spokesman said Thursday, May 26.
Jason Wheeler, the district's coordinator of communications, said Parton announced she was stepping down to tend to pressing family concerns, and Schwartz tendered a notice of resignation effective at the end of his contract.
Earlier in the day, the district released a statement saying Superintendent Cathy Mittlestadt "has decided both campuses were in need of a different leadership style."
Schwartz and Parton were both in their first year with their schools.
"Changes in school administration and staffing often occur in the weeks immediately following the end of a school year," the district statement said. "There are several teachers who will be shifting to other campuses as Flagler Schools moves from a K-6 model to a K-5, moving our 6th-grade classes back into our middle schools."
The district said a search for new principals at both schools has begun, and the district will hold a series of "listening sessions" with faculty, staff and community members in the coming weeks.
"The purpose of these sessions is to find attributes these stakeholders would like to see in a campus leader," the district said.
