Gwinnett Schools: Grace Snell Middle has new principal

Less than a month after the principal of Grace Snell Middle School, two other administrators and six teachers retired or resigned in the midst of a test cheating investigation, the Gwinnett County Public Schools Board of Education appointed a new head of the school.

At a special called meeting on June 3, the board also approved four other principal appointments for the 2019-2020 school year.

Darlene Brown, an assistant principal at Hull Middle

School, will become the next principal of Grace Snell Middle School.

Katrina Larmond, an assistant principal at Trip Elementary School, will become the principal of

Bethesda Elementary School. She will fill the position currently held by Pam Williams who will be a new Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Schools.

Kono Smith, an assistant principal at Hopkins

Elementary, will be the new principal at Graves Elementary School.

Natalie Looney, an assistant principal at Summerour Middle School will become the next principal of that

school as current principal Dorothy Jarrett transitions to the principal role at South Gwinnett High School.

Durrant Williams, the principal of GIVE Center East, has been tapped as the next principal of Berkmar

High School. He succeeds Al Taylor who has been named as an Assistant Superintendent for Middle Schools.

Although the educators involved in the Grace Snell investigation are no longer with Gwinnett schools, the investigation continues, according to district officials.

Gwinnett wouldn’t release names, but did send preliminary findings to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission to determine if teaching certification should be suspended or revoked.

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