Rochelle Brown Named Huntington High School Principal

Rochelle C. Brown has been appointed as Huntington High School’s new principal. She succeeds longtime building leader Brenden Cusack, who was appointed assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction earlier this summer.

Ms. Brown comes to the district after serving as Uniondale High School’s assistant principal for the past three years. Prior to that she was an assistant principal at Roosevelt High School for nearly three years. She began her career as a science teacher in Queens.

“We are looking forward to Ms. Brown joining our administrative team,” Superintendent Beth M. McCoy said. “She brings a wealth of experience as a high school assistant principal and instructional leader. Her strengths include data analysis, professional development and collaborating with colleagues and faculty to ensure that all students succeed.”

Huntington High School’s new educational leader holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish having earned both at City College of New York. She obtained a Master of Science in Education degree at Pace University and studied for her administrative certification at The College of St. Rose.

Ms. Brown has also served as an attendance teacher, dean of safety and student culture and lead science teacher. She taught science on 6-8 grade level, including Living Environment and Earth Science Regents along with honors science.

Fluent in written and spoken Spanish, Ms. Brown began her administrative career at Northside Charter High School in Brooklyn where she supervised the science and guidance departments along with the deans and security personnel.

At Roosevelt, Ms. Brown created the high school’s master schedule for more than 1,000 students, supervised social studies, ENL, world language, music, chemistry, geometry and family and consumer science teachers as well as the Advanced Placement program. She managed the building’s website and Twitter page.

At Uniondale, Ms. Brown oversaw the science, guidance, speech and multi-media specialist departments, was the testing coordinator for Regents, state field tests and the PSAT and chaired the scholarship committee.

Ms. Brown maintains memberships in the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the School Administrators Association of New York.