Mitch Street named Heights High School Assistant Principal

Hamilton Heights School Corporation recently announced that Mitch Street has been named as Assistant Principal at Hamilton Heights High School. He brings nearly two decades of educational experience as well as a strong familiarity with Hamilton Heights to his new role.

Street, a Lapel native, began his career in education at Hamilton Heights as a Social Studies teacher in 2008. He also served as Hamilton Heights Assistant Varsity Football coach for three years prior to assuming the head coaching position in 2011. During this time, he mentored and coached students on and off the field, married, became a father of two, and a school administrator. In 2014, he traded in his role as a classroom teacher to become the Dean of Students at the high school. He continued to coach until 2017.

“It is truly an honor and privilege to begin a new chapter of my career with Hamilton Heights School Corporation as the Assistant Principal of the high school,” said Street, who earned his Bachelor of Social Science Education from Olivet Nazarene University and master’s in education leadership from the American College of Education. “Hamilton Heights has become a home I love for the last 17 years. My wife is an employee at Beck’s Hybrids and our children have grown up here and become Huskies. I have seen this community rally and support each other in really special ways. I consider myself lucky to be a small part of it.”

Street credits former principal, the late Jarrod Mason, for communicating with him early on about his leadership potential.

“Jarrod encouraged me to explore getting my degree and administrative license,” recalled Street, who took his advice and was always a huge supporter of this part of his professional development journey. “I feel very blessed to have been able to serve in a place like Hamilton Heights and working with faculty and staff who have always been a tremendous influence and an abundance of encouragement.”

Superintendent Dr. Derek Arrowood said he looks forward to all the good things Street will continue to do in this new role.

“Mitch Street has been an integral part of the HHHS Administrative Team for the last decade,” Arrowood said. “As he moves into this new leadership role, I have no doubt that he will continue to make a positive difference in the lives of HHHS students. Mitch has been highly successful at HHHS as a Head Coach, Dean of Students, and is a wonderful father and husband. He is absolutely the right person to be the next HHHS Assistant Principal at exactly the right time.”

While Street, poised and levelheaded in difficult situations, was content working on a strong team with Mason and current Principal Whitney Gray, he didn’t have a desire to go anywhere else because of the relationship that they built.

“With the unfortunate circumstances of Jarrod’s passing, I felt like we had an opportunity to keep a lot of the good things going, but also an understanding of the areas we needed to push to grow and improve,” he said.

As Assistant Principal, Street plans to continue to provide a learning environment where students have pathways to explore possible career interests, where teachers are empowered to teach and pour themselves into kids so they can be prepared to pursue their aspirations after high school.