Prior to the new school year starting on Friday, Perry Schools is bringing in a healthy amount of new teachers.

The 2024-2025 school year for Perry will continue to be a recovery year following the January 4th tragedy. Perry Superintendent Clark Wicks explains that there hasn’t been a huge fluctuation of students with the loss of the Tyson Foods Pork Plant, and is happy to announce that 19 new teachers are on staff between the elementary, middle, and high school.

“We got a good crew of new teachers coming in, and getting themselves prepared and getting ready for the year, and then we want to be able to have a great year, we are going to have a great year, and we’re going to have things prepared.”

Wicks is reassuring students, staff members, and parents that the district is supplying mental health therapists, therapy dogs, and extra School Resource Officers (SROs). Perry Schools will feature seven new elementary teachers, three new middle school teachers, seven new high school teachers, and two additional teachers. The full lineup of new teachers for Perry Schools can be found below.

 

Elementary School

Molly Ellis – Kindergarten

Maria Croyle – 2nd Grade

Ella Kane – Kindergarten

Odaly Perla Cortez – 3rd Grade

Kelli Walters – 3rd Grade

Amanda Jennings – .5 Elementary Sped

Laura Skeel – Elementary Principal

 

Middle School

Payton Bitting – 7th Grade Social Studies

Lisa Roberts – 7th Grade Language Arts

Olivia Klein – 8th Grade Language Arts

 

High School

Jodi Baier – Spanish

Andrew Corral – Language Arts

Ryan Jolivette – Social Studies

MaryLou Ledesma – Sped Teacher

Morgan Lind – Language Arts

Yadira Perez – HS Counselor

Andrew McCormick – Associate Principal

 

Additional Teachers

Amanda (Mandy) Gustafson – Success Ctr. Sped

Amy Archer – Family & Consumer Sciences