White Knoll Elementary Gets New Principal

White Knoll Elementary has a new principal for the 2013-2014 school year, Lexington County School District One announced Tuesday. 

Robert C. Grant Jr., who is currently principal at Jesse Boyd Elementary School in Spartanburg, will replace current Principal Janet H. Malone, who was named principal of Lexington One's newest school, Deerfield Elementary.

The Lexington One School Board approved the hire of Grant on April 9 at a special-called meeting. The board also approved the hire of Dean Howell as athletic director and head football coach at White Knoll High. 

Grant, who has 14 years of educational experience,began his career as a fourth-grade teacher at Mitchell Road Elementary School in the Greenville County Schools in 1999 and served as interim assistant principal in 2001 and interim principal in 2002.

In 2003, he taught fifth-grade at Fountain Inn Elementary School and fifth-grade at Bethel Elementary in 2004. He was promoted to assistant principal at Paris Elementary in 2004 and to principal at Joseph S. Shanklin, Sr. Elementary in the Beaufort County School District in 2008. He joined Jesse Boyd Elementary School as principal in 2009.

Grant received a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from the University of South Carolina Spartanburg and a master’s degree in elementary education and his educational specialist degree in administration and supervision from Converse College.

He was a recent member of the South Carolina Education Policy Fellowship Class of 2012 and moderator and a panelist for one of SCETV’s Principals of Excellence segments. He is also a graduate of the South Carolina Department of Education’s School Leadership Executive Institute.

He is a member of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators and a board member of the South Carolina School Improvement Council.

Submitted by Lexington One.