Amity HS Principal To Step Down To Be Assistant Chief in Brookfield

WOODBRIDGE, CT — A veteran educator at Amity Regional High School who has spent the past seven years leading the school is stepping down for a new role in a new school district.

Amity Principal Anna N. Mahon announced Wednesday she has accepted the position of assistant superintendent of schools in the Brookfield School District.

As a result, her final day leading Amity, a place she has worked for 22 year in various capacities, will be July 31, she said in a letter to the Amity community.

Amity is part of Regional School District 5, which serves the towns of Orange, Woodbridge and Bethany.

"I have been here for 22 out of my 25 years as a professioal educator. I have grown up as an educator here and Amity Regional High School has been my home," wrote Mahon. "I now have an opportunity to learn and grow in a different position in a different community."

In her letter of notice to District 5 Superintendent of Schools Jennifer P. Byars, Mahon offered kind words to the school , which is located in Woodbridge, and the district, which also serves middle schoolers.

"I have been honored to be a part of such an amazing school community and to have been able to work with some of the best professional educators in Connecticut," Mahon wrote to Byars. "Amity is a place that will always be near and dear to my heart."

Byars said Mahon is ready for the next step in her education career, adding she's looking forward to seeing how Brookfield does with Mahon in a leadership position there.

"The Amity Regional School District will clearly miss Dr. Anna Mahon — her leadership, her passion for education, her devotion to this community, and most especially, her clear focus on putting students first," Byars said in a statement.

"She has been a tremendous leader through a tumultous period in education and has truly kept the high school moving in a positive direction."

Prior to coming to Amity in 2000, Mahon was an English teacher at Darien High School from 1997-99 and taught at Stamford High School, where she graduated, for the 1999-2000 school year.

Mahon said the search for her replacement will start in the next few weeks, with the goal being to have a new high school leader in place for the start of the new school year this fall.

For more information on Amity Regional School District 5, visit this link.