Bay Middle School principal Sean McAndrews announced June 18 he is leaving July 1 and moving south, according to a news release.
McAndrews has accepted a position as assistant principal of curriculum and instruction at Barron Collier High School in Naples, Fla.
He has been with the Bay Village City School district since 2001, when he was named assistant principal at Bay High School.
McAndrews became principal at Bay Middle School in 2005 after serving as a house principal at Lakewood High School and as a middle-school teacher at Lakewood and at St. Boniface in Cleveland.
“My 19-year tenure in Bay allowed me to develop long-term relationships with families as they had multiple children of different ages progress through our schools,” McAndrews said. “I can’t express how rewarding it has been for me to watch students grow academically, socially and emotionally, to get to know their families, and then to have many of them come back years after graduation to see me.”
As assistant principal and chief disciplinarian at Bay High, McAndrews was instrumental in establishing Bay Family Services, a partnership with the city of Bay Village that provides referrals for counseling and other support for families in various kinds of crisis. Key to the program is a juvenile diversion program, where the schools and police work together to get students who have gotten into trouble onto a path of correction that is rehabilitative in nature, the release said.
