Newnan High School Assistant Principal Nancy Cook has been appointed as the new principal of East Coweta Middle School, beginning in July.

Cook will replace current principal Derek Pitts, who is leaving to become principal of East Coweta High School next school year.

Cook – a 24-year educator – has served in her current position as a Newnan High School assistant principal since 2003. She originally came to the Coweta County School System in 1994, as a teacher at East Coweta High School, after working for 12 years as a teacher in Texas middle and high schools and at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Georgia. In 1996 she became a counselor at East Coweta High, before becoming an assistant principal at Smokey Road Middle in 2002 and then a Newnan High assistant principal the following year.

Cook earned her B. A. in English from Harding University and her Master’s in Counseling from Memphis State University. She earned her Education Specialist degree from Argosy University, and has recently completed work toward her doctorate in education from Argosy and is awaiting formal awarding of the degree.

Cook will begin as East Coweta Middle’s principal in July, after the end of the current school year. Other recent principal announcements have included Pitts’ appointment to head East Coweta High starting next school year, to replace Kirk Stallings who is retiring after 35 years in education, and Dana Ballou’s appointment to the principalship of Northside Elementary School.

The Board also recently named former Coweta County Principal Bob Heaberlin to head the new Lee Middle School, and former Coweta assistant principal Becky Darrah to head the new Welch Elementary School, when the two new schools open next year. Both are currently serving as principals in neighboring counties, and have begun preparing for the new schools’ opening even before they return to Coweta Schools officially this summer.

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