Mary Ellen Edge named new principal of Austin High School

From the FBISD website:

Mary Ellen Edge named new principal of Austin High School

At its May 24 Board Meeting, the Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees named Mary Ellen Edge as the new principal of Austin High School. Edge is an experienced educational leader and has served in public education for 20 years. She has been the Associate Principal at Clements High School since July 2006. Before serving at Clements, she was the Dean of Instruction and an assistant principal at Bush High School. She was also at Austin High School for seven years where she served as an assistant principal, a special education department head and a special education teacher. She began her educational career as a special education teacher and worked in Rice Consolidated ISD, Sealy ISD and Port Arthur ISD.

Edge received her Bachelor of Education degree from Mississippi State University and her Master of Education in Administration from Houston Baptist University. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Education at Texas A&M University and expects to graduate in the summer of 2011. Edge is a graduate of Fort Bend ISD's LEAD Principal's Academy and was part of the Academy's first cohort of aspiring administrators.

Current Austin High School Principal, Mike Leach, is retiring from Fort Bend ISD after 39 years in education with 34 of those in Fort Bend ISD. Leach has been the principal of Austin High School since it opened in 1995. In 2008-2009, Austin High School was named as one of the top high schools in the nation, state and Houston area.