City Government
School Committee & Superintendent
The Superintendent
Sheila Martin
Agawam Public Schools enrolls 3,418 students, and one person answers for all of them. Sheila Martin is the Superintendent, the professional chief executive of the district. The elected School Committee sets policy, approves the school budget, and hires the Superintendent; the Superintendent runs the system those decisions describe, across all eight schools from the Agawam Early Childhood Center to Agawam High. That division of labor matters when you want something changed. A concern about one classroom starts with the teacher and the principal, but a concern about the district as a whole, a program, a schedule, a policy, ends up on the Superintendent’s desk or on the committee’s agenda. The office publishes a direct address: superintendent@agawamed.org.
| Role | Superintendent of Schools |
|---|---|
| superintendent@agawamed.org | |
| Website | agawamed.org |
The School Committee
The Agawam School Committee has seven seats, and one of them belongs to the Mayor. Under the charter the Mayor is not just a member but the chairperson: Christopher C. Johnson presides over the committee that oversees the town’s schools, a direct link between the Operating Budget on the Mayor’s desk and the classrooms it funds. The other six members are elected. The committee sets school policy, approves the school budget, and hires the Superintendent, which makes those six elected seats some of the most consequential on any Agawam ballot.
Christopher C. Johnson
Wendy Rua
Dawn DeMatteo
Catherine McDougal
Shelley Reed
A.J. Christopher
Michael Perry
The District at a Glance
- Enrollment: 3,418 students.
- Schools: eight, from the Agawam Early Childhood Center to Agawam High.
- Graduation rate: 92.5 percent for the most recent reported four-year cohort.
- State data: DESE profile (code 00050000).
Meetings & Participation
- When: the committee posts its meeting dates, agendas, and minutes through the town’s School Committee page.
- Public comment: meetings are public, and the posted agenda tells you how to address the committee.
- Why it matters: if a course got cut, a bus route stopped working, or a school schedule changed, these seven people are the ones who can undo it.
- Contact: the roster with each member’s contact details is on the same town page.
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