Conestoga Valley school board filled a vacancy Monday at Brownstown Elementary by hiring a principal from Taylor Elementary in Columbia Borough School District.
The board hired Andrew S. Graybill to replace Kelly Cartwright, who was promoted in December to serve as the district's director of elementary education.
Graybill will lead the staff at Brownstown, which serves 476 students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
He said, "Taylor is a small school, and the challenge of administering a larger student population has always been interesting to me. My wife is a CV grad, and I've worked with some of the principals in the district, so I know CV is a great place to teach and learn."
A date for Graybill to begin work in Brownstown has not yet been determined.
Graybill began his career in education as a middle school social studies teacher in the Harford County (Md.) Public Schools and joined the social studies faculty at Columbia Junior/Senior High School in 2003. He became assistant principal for the school in 2005 and was promoted to principal at Taylor Elementary in 2006.
Before he began his teaching career, Graybill worked as a foster care case manager and psychiatric assistant at Philhaven psychiatric hospital in Lebanon County.
CV Superintendent Gerald Huesken said the district "received more than 50 applications for this opening with almost half of them from individuals with active experience as a principal or assistant principal.
Graybill earned a master of education from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 2005 and is pursuing a doctor of education degree from Immaculata University. He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at Messiah College and a social studies certification from Millersville University.
Graybill lives in Lancaster with his wife Andrea, and their two children, Hannah, 8, and Ben, 6.
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