The Rye Neck School District, located in Southern Westchester County, lies approximately 20 miles northeast of New York City. Bordering Connecticut and the Long Island Sound, the district serves a diverse group of students from both the City of Rye and the Village of Mamaroneck, largely residential areas that boast of picturesque settings. The district’s close proximity to a major metropolitan area allows for unique learning opportunities and an exposure to a global culture.
The Rye Neck School District is comprised of two elementary schools – one servicing grades K-2 (Daniel Warren) and another for grades 3-5 (F.E. Bellows), as well as a middle school and high school, which share the same campus. Rye Neck High School and F.E. Bellows Elementary School have both been designated as National Schools of Excellence by the United States Department of Education. With a population of over 1,400 students, the Rye Neck School District is able to offer a personal education within a public school setting. The small population allows for close interaction between the students and faculty. The district strongly emphasizes a sense of opportunity and advancement to its students and continually challenges them to reach even higher levels of personal success.
Rye Neck is a close-knit school community that values local and global voices. We are committed to providing a learning journey that inspires an adaptive mindset and enables all learners to thrive academically and personally.
Rye Neck’s goals are to:
Equip all learners to approach problems by asking questions, exploring solutions, taking action, and reflecting on outcomes.
Build transformative environments that foster empathy, compassion, and connection to the world. Create learning experiences that instill a sense of purpose inside and outside of the classroom.
Design systems for our professional learning community to develop practices and expertise that lead to transformational experiences for themselves and their students.
The Board of Education is seeking a leader who can build upon the district’s many accomplishments and take it to its next level of excellence.
Following significant staff and community engagement, the Rye Neck Union Free School District Board of Education has approved the following specifications for its search for a new Superintendent.
The successful candidate will be:
A confident, innovative, and visionary leader who purposely and persuasively engages the school community to focus on what’s best for students while honoring valued Rye Neck traditions, ensuring the commitment to financial stability, and welcoming stakeholder input for guiding the district safely forward;
A calm, measured, and thoughtful problem-solver who will help unify, refine, and strengthen board governance to ensure best practices are consistently modeled while proactively seeking creative solutions to better the district;
A courageous, approachable, and ethical decision-maker with a sense of humor who leads by example and continuously builds trust through polished, ongoing, and transparent communications and regularly seeks to expand community engagement through constructive relationships;
A personable, kind, and progressive educator with success in a high-expectation school district excited to support and enhance the excellence of Rye Neck’s faculty, staff, and administrators by collectively identifying and implementing solutions;
A dynamic, accessible, and collaborative instructional leader skilled at hiring and mentoring talent, supporting and inspiring stakeholders, and advancing the strategic plan while actively advocating for the district.
Eligibility for New York State licensing as a School District Administrator or School District Leader is required. A starting base salary in the range of $250,000 to $325,000, subject to negotiation based upon qualifications and experience, will be offered. In addition, a regionally competitive fringe benefits package will be offered. EOE: Minority candidates are encouraged to apply.
Only online applications will be accepted. Please go to the School Leadership LLC website, www.leadschools.us and click on the on-line application link under “Current Vacancies.” This is a rolling search and applications are being accepted now. To learn more about the Rye Neck UFSD, visit https://www.ryeneck.org/
School Leadership, LLC was founded in 2004 and since that time has assisted more than 130 New York, New Jersey and Connecticut school boards in the recruitment and selection of new superintendents. Its President is Dr. Charles Fowler, who served as a superintendent for 35 years in four states; he is assisted by 20 associates who are also former superintendents, board members, university professors, and state level administrators.
