Compass Midtown- Principal (2025-26 School Year)
Website Compass Community Schools
High School Principal- Compass Midtown 2025-2026
About Us
In July 2019, Compass Community Schools opened six high-quality charter schools (five elementary and one middle/high) in the Memphis communities of Binghampton, Berclair, Frayser, Hickory Hill, Midtown, and Orange Mound. We focus intently on three pillars – academic excellence, values-based character education, and service learning in the community – as we prepare our students for college and life-long success.
Our vision is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideal of education: “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” This true education – provided within a supportive, joyful, and hopeful school culture – will prepare our students to be positive agents of change in our communities.
Position Overview
Compass Community Schools seeks a Principal for the 2025-26 school year who will lead our school with a relentless focus on achieving the highest standards of excellence. As the school’s primary instructional leader, the Principal will support teachers’ efforts to provide children high quality learning experiences every minute of every day. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and committed educational leader to prepare Memphis youth academically and in character for college and life-long success.
Primary Responsibilities
⦁Foster a school community that focuses on three pillars – academic excellence, values-based character education, and service learning in the community – to prepare students for college and life-long success.
⦁Working in tandem with the head of school, develop a supportive, joyful, hopeful, and safe school culture that has high expectations for students’ individual and collective success.
⦁Provide leadership for all aspects of instructional leadership, including: instructional quality, school culture, use of data, talent management, and professional development.
⦁Claim ownership of the privilege and responsibility to ensure high levels of student learning.
⦁Hold teachers accountable to high standards of excellence while providing high quality support to help them meet these standards.
⦁Carefully monitor school performance via frequent classroom observations, walkthroughs, and in-depth data analysis in order to identify areas of strength as well as opportunities for improvement.
⦁Provide on-going coaching and feedback to teachers to help them continuously improve.
⦁Ensure that instructional lessons are consistently standards-based, objective-driven, and effectively delivered with an urgent focus on individual student mastery.
⦁Communicate regularly with families as partners in the education of their children.
Qualifications
⦁Affinity with, and passion for, the compelling vision of Compass Community Schools
⦁Proven success in raising academic achievement for students from low-income backgrounds
⦁Ability to lead a team towards high performance levels in pursuit of the Compass vision
⦁Strong ability to plan strategically and then execute these plans with attention to detail
⦁Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the capacity to engage, inspire and motivate
⦁Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to build productive relationships with teammates and with external partners
⦁Desire to work hard in a balanced, extended school calendar
⦁Utmost personal and professional integrity
⦁Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited four-year institution
What We Offer
⦁Mission-driven, joyful, respectful working environments
⦁Intentionally small school settings
⦁Wide-ranging support from our network office
⦁Opportunity to positively impact the lives of Memphis youth
⦁Competitive compensation and benefits package
