Paula S. Fitzgerald, 51, will lead Chestnut Hill Community School, a grades 4 through 6 school located at 59 State St. in Belchertown.
Paula Fitzgerald is leaving her position as principal of Monson's Quarry Hill Community School to assume the same position at Belchertown's Chestnut Hill Community School. BELCHERTOWN — A Holyoke resident who's currently principal of Monson's Quarry Hill Community School will start a new job as an elementary school principal in Belchertown on July 1, Superintendent Judith Houle announced on Tuesday.
Paula S. Fitzgerald, 51, will lead Chestnut Hill Community School, a grades 4 through 6 school located at 59 State St. in Belchertown. Contract details with the new principal are being ironed out, Houle said.
Fitzgerald worked in the Holyoke school system prior to becoming principal of Quarry Hill in 2011. She earned a bachelor's degree in education at the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee. Fitzgerald has a certificate of advanced graduate studies in administration from the University of Massachusetts.
Jose H. Irizarry has been the interim principal at Chestnut Hill. He is officially retired from Springfield public schools, where he was principal at Margaret C. Ells Elementary School.
Chestnut Hill's former principal, Brian Cameron, was promoted earlier this year to assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum development.
There were 27 applicants for the Chestnut Hill position, according to Houle.