Pierce School principal Jamie Yadoff announced Tuesday she is leaving her position at the end of the school year to take a job in Newton.
Yadoff will be principal at Memorial-Spaulding Elementary School in Newton, she told Brookline.News. She declined an interview.
“I believe our Pierce community is the very best school in Brookline,” Yadoff said in an email statement. “I have loved my two decades of work at Pierce, and I will miss everyone terribly. Whoever the new principal is will be lucky to work with such a caring and diverse school community.”
Yadoff was a teacher at Pierce for 13 years before becoming vice principal in 2018, and principal in 2022.
In her announcement, Yadoff said the new position will “allow me to achieve a better balance between my personal and professional life, and will provide new and exciting opportunities for professional growth.”
Yadoff’s departure comes in the midst of the demolition and reconstruction of the Pierce School, which began in the fall and is slated to take at least two years. In the meantime, Pierce students and staff are split between the Old Lincoln School on Boylston Street and a town-owned building on Fisher Hill.
The vacancy will make Pierce the third K-8 school — alongside the Baker and Florida Ruffin Ridley schools — in the district without a permanent principal. The principal search at Ridley has been narrowed to three candidates, including the current interim principal Candice Whitmore, said Superintendent Linus Guillory at a School Committee meeting on Feb. 6.
Neel Gudka, a spokesperson for the district, did not answer specific questions regarding the principal search at Baker.