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This page shows a full School Principal resume with notes on each section, alongside 7 openings hiring now.

Open jobs

7

Most openings

Arkansas

Median pay

$42,860

The example

A school principal resume, in full.

Resume

Curtis Bramlett

School Principal — Middle School, Six Hundred Students

Springfield, Missouri

Professional Summary

Middle school principal leading a building of six hundred students and forty-eight staff. Took the school through a full master schedule rebuild and cut teacher turnover by more than half over three years.

Experience

Principal

Ozark Ridge Middle School • Springfield, MO

Jul 2021 - Present

  • Lead a building of six hundred students and forty-eight staff, with responsibility for a budget of just under five million dollars.
  • Rebuilt the master schedule to protect a daily intervention block, which required renegotiating team planning time with staff rather than imposing it.
  • Teacher turnover fell from roughly a quarter of staff a year to under a tenth.

Assistant Principal

Battlefield High School • Springfield, MO

Jul 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Handled discipline, attendance, and the observation cycle for half the teaching staff.
  • Introduced a restorative conference process for repeat referrals that reduced out-of-school suspensions across the two years it ran.

Social Studies Teacher and Department Chair

Battlefield High School • Springfield, MO

Aug 2011 - Jun 2017

  • Taught government and world history, chairing the department for the final three years.
  • Ran the district's mentor programme for new social studies staff.

Education

Missouri State University

Education Specialist • Educational Administration

Aug 2015 - May 2017

University of Missouri

Bachelor of Science • Secondary Education

Aug 2007 - May 2011

Skills

Master schedule designBuilding budget managementTeacher evaluation and coachingStaff retentionRestorative disciplineFamily and community engagementSchool improvement planningSpecial education complianceCrisis management

Certifications

Missouri Building Level Administrator Certificate, Grades Five through Nine

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Jun 2017

Missouri Teaching Certificate — Social Science, Grades Nine through Twelve

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Jun 2011

Section by section

What each part of this resume is doing.

Summary

The summary gives building size and the state the school was in when you arrived, because a School Principal is judged on the gap between that and where it ended up.

Experience

Each entry names what moved and over how long. A School Principal listing responsibilities describes the job rather than the record, and every applicant held the same responsibilities.

Skills

Skills stay on budget, staffing, and instructional systems, since those are the levers a School Principal actually controls.

credentials

The administrative licence is listed separately from any teaching one, because a School Principal cannot be appointed without it and boards check the endorsement directly.

Before you apply

What K-12 hiring committees look for

A board hiring a School Principal is weighing whether you can hold staff through a hard change and answer to families in public. Evidence of retaining teachers matters more than any single achievement number.

There are 7 open School Principal roles, concentrated in Arkansas, with a median of $42,860.

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Common questions

Writing a school principal resume.

Building size, budget held, staffing decisions, and what changed under you. There are 7 open School Principal roles to match it against.

Two pages is normal at this level. A School Principal with several buildings behind them should account for each rather than compress them into a line.

Most states require it before the administrative licence is issued. Show the classroom years briefly and spend the space on leadership, as most School Principal postings sit in Arkansas.