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Meet Our Superintendent
Paul Hurst
(405) 495-5200, ext. 1202
E-mail: phurst@putnamcityschools.org
Paul Hurst became superintendent of Putnam City Schools on July 1, 2008.
Hurst, who has a career in public education of nearly 40 years, came to Putnam City from Tahlequah Public Schools, where he served as superintendent for seven years. At Tahlequah he was named Oklahoma’s 2008 Administrator of the Year by the Oklahoma Association of School Administrators.
Before his time in Tahlequah, Hurst was with Mid-Del Schools for more than 24 years. He served as the Mid-Del’s assistant superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for six years and was the district’s director of Secondary Instruction for four years before that. Hurst also spent four years in Mid-Del as principal of Kerr Junior High School and three years as an assistant principal at Monroney Junior High School.
Hurst’s teaching career includes five years as a teacher and coach at Del City High School and two years as a teacher and coach at Del Crest Junior High School.
Hurst is a president of the Oklahoma Association of School Administrators and a member of Oklahoma's Education Hall of Fame and the State Superintendent’s Advisory Council. He is a past member of the State Superintendent’s School Improvement Committee, past executive board member of the Oklahoma Schools Advisory Council and a past president of the United Suburban Schools Association.
Hurst holds a bachelor’s degree in human development from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a master’s of education degree from the University of Central Oklahoma.
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