KENNEWICK, Wash.-The Kennewick School District recently announced that Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce will retire at the end of the 2024-25 school year.
According to a social media post, the district will now start a recruitment/hiring process for a Deputy/Successor Superintendent to serve during the 2024-25 school year and become the Superintendent when Dr. Pierce retires in June 2025.
Dr. Pierce has served as KSD Superintendent since January of 2020, overseeing the development of a new strategic plan for the district that was put together in collaboration with students, parents, staff and the community to support the district’s mission, according to the district’s website.
Dr. Pierce spent 24-years in the Lake Washington School District before coming to the KSD.
Her career in education has gone from the classroom to the district office, according to her biography on the KSD website. Dr. Pierce began her career as a teacher and then a principal, coordinator, learning director, chief schools officer, deputy superintendent and superintendent
The KSD is now inviting the community to complete an online survey by Jan. 24, to help in its search for a superintendent.
The community can share the characteristics and qualifications they think are important in the next superintendent, as well as the problems they believe the KSD is facing in the survey.
The community survey is available in both English and Spanish.
