Kaysin Higgins Chosen as New Principal at North Elementary

Calloway County Schools has announced that Kaysin Higgins will be hired as the next principal of North Calloway Elementary School. Higgins will take over on July 1st for Melinda Hendley, who is retiring at the end of the school year.

Higgins has been the assistant principal at North for the past two school years. Before that, she was a teacher at the school for 13 years. Higgins has degrees from Murray State in elementary education and school administration. She is a graduate of Calloway County High School, and will become the principal of the school she attended as a child.

“Through her time as an assistant principal and teacher at North, Mrs. Higgins has shown that she will continue to be a strong leader for the school,” said CCSD Superintendent Tres Settle. “She is a talented educator and an effective leader, and I am confident she will do a great job as principal.”

“I’m incredibly humbled and excited for the opportunity to continue growing and learning at North Elementary,” said Higgins. “After 15 years of building strong relationships with our staff, students, and families, I’m thrilled to keep growing alongside them in this new role. I’m deeply honored that Mr. Settle and the hiring committee have entrusted me with this responsibility, and I'm always proud to say I’m a ‘Laker for Life.”

Higgins and her husband, Jamie, have a son, Jaksin, who will be a fifth grader at the school next year.