Charles County Public Schools has named two new assistant principals for the 2026-2027 school year, filling openings at J.C. Parks Elementary School and Mattawoman Middle School as part of a wave of administrative moves the district has rolled out since the school board approved its assistant principal candidate pool in May.
Armille Mitchell has been appointed assistant principal at J.C. Parks Elementary School, effective immediately. Mitchell spent the past three years as an administrative intern at Theodore G. Davis Middle School and has served as an administrator in the district’s summer school program since 2024. Before beginning her administrative career with CCPS, she taught math in Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia.
Jahan Savage-Spriggs has been appointed assistant principal at Mattawoman Middle School, also effective immediately. Savage-Spriggs previously served three years as an administrative intern at Thomas Stone High School and worked as an assistant principal with the district’s Extended School Year program. She taught math at Theodore G. Davis Middle School before moving into administration and continues to support the district’s Home and Hospital Program as an instructor. Earlier in her teaching career, Savage-Spriggs worked in Boston Public Schools and Florida’s Hillsborough County School District before joining CCPS.
Both appointments draw from the assistant principal pool the Board of Education of Charles County approved in May, a standard process the district uses to pre-qualify candidates for administrative openings that arise across its schools throughout the year rather than posting and vetting each vacancy individually. Mattawoman Middle School has seen additional administrative turnover this year: the board separately approved Tracey Harvey, previously an assistant principal at Olympic High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, for an assistant principal role at the same school earlier this spring, suggesting the Waldorf-area middle school added more than one administrator ahead of the new school year.
The appointments follow a broader round of principal and assistant principal moves CCPS announced this spring for the 2026-2027 school year, including Kayla Hawkins’s move from assistant principal at J.P. Ryon Elementary School to principal of Dr. Gustavus Brown Elementary School, and a series of assistant principal transfers across several of the district’s middle schools. Superintendent Maria V. Navarro also announced principal changes at the high school level this spring, including Theodore G. Davis Middle School principal Robert Griffiths moving to lead St. Charles High School and St. Charles principal Tammika Little taking over at Davis.
Charles County Public Schools serves 27,904 students across 39 schools in prekindergarten through grade 12, making it one of the larger school systems in Southern Maryland. J.C. Parks Elementary and Mattawoman Middle both sit within the district’s cluster of schools serving the Waldorf and Indian Head Highway corridor, an area of the county that has seen substantial residential growth in recent years and correspondingly steady enrollment at its schools.
Both new assistant principals arrive with backgrounds that combine classroom teaching experience with several years of administrative internship or interim leadership roles within CCPS, a pathway the district has increasingly relied on to develop administrators internally before placing them in permanent assistant principal positions. The district’s summer school and Extended School Year programs, in which both Mitchell and Savage-Spriggs previously served, have functioned in recent years as an additional training ground for teachers moving toward school leadership roles.
J.C. Parks Elementary, one of the district’s schools serving the Indian Head area, and Mattawoman Middle School, which draws students from the growing Waldorf area, both operate within a Charles County school system that has expanded significantly over the past two decades as the county’s population has grown alongside its proximity to the Washington, D.C., metro area. That growth has driven a steady need for new administrators as the district periodically opens new schools and manages leadership turnover across its existing 39 buildings.
The most up-to-date information on CCPS administrative appointments and other school system news is available at ccboe.com.
