District appoints nine new school principals for 2026-27

What happened

On June 23, 2026, the board appointed nine new principals in a single closed session, filling openings at Santa Ana High School (Gabriel Moreno), Century High School (Analese Alvarez), Middle College High School (Ignacio Muniz), Greenville Fundamental Elementary (Errin Robinson Landry), Franklin Elementary (Alissa Nieto), Taft Elementary (Julie Choi), Washington Elementary (Vivian Hanson), Wilson Elementary (Edward Espino), and Mendez Fundamental Intermediate (Scott Werner). Several of these vacancies trace back to retirements, resignations, and reassignments recorded earlier in the year, including at Wilson Elementary and Century High School.

Why it matters to families

Nine principal openings filled in one meeting, across roughly a sixth of the district's school sites, is an unusually large, concentrated leadership turnover for a single year. A new principal can bring real changes in school culture, discipline, staffing decisions, and communication with families, so this affects how each of these nine school communities experiences the coming year.

The evidence

The June 23, 2026 minutes record nine separate 5-0 closed-session votes appointing named individuals to Principal positions at the nine schools listed, under 'Report of Action Taken in Closed Session.'

The source