Photo: Ericka Armstrong
A new principal has been selected for Gainesville High School.
The Ozark County Times reports Gainesville Junior High Principal Ericka Armstrong was selected for the new role earlier this month by the school board.
Armstrong is her second year as junior high principal and will move to the new job July 1.
She replaces current Gainesville High School Principal Justin Gilmore, who was hired Nov. 4 to take the district’s superintendent job in July, replacing the retiring Jeff Hyatt.
Armstrong grew up in Summersville, where she graduated from high school in 2002. She comes from a family with a tradition in education. Her father, Rick Spacek, was a school superintendent, retiring from Fordland schools. Her mother, Donna Spacek, is a retired school nurse, who occasionally fills in at Gainesville.
Armstrong and her husband, Gary, live in Wasola with their three children. All attend Gainesville schools.
Armstrong holds an associate degree in agricultural business from Mineral Area College in Park Hills, south of St. Louis. She earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education, focusing on English, from Missouri State University, a master’s degree in educational administration from William Wood University in Fulton and a specialist’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Arkansas State University. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in educational leadership at Evangel University.
As grades seven-12 principal, Armstrong said her goals are to continue fostering positive relationships between students and staff, create more opportunities for both college-bound and career-bound students and “continue to show everyone why they should be proud to be Gainesville Bulldogs.”
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