Town Government
Ware School Committee & Superintendent
The Superintendent
Michael Wood
About 1,066 students start their day in this district, and one person answers for all of it. Michael Wood leads Ware Public Schools as Interim Superintendent, the title the district itself prints, proposing the school budget, setting academic priorities, and running three schools day to day. The Superintendent is hired by and reports to the elected School Committee, and the committee has been doing exactly that hiring in public: it seated a superintendent search subcommittee of committee members, teachers, staff, parents, at-large residents and two current high school students, and presented its finalists to the community at an open meet and greet in March 2026. Note what this means for the money: the school budget is the one large piece of town spending the Town Manager does not build. It comes from the Superintendent to the School Committee, and then to the same Town Meeting that votes everything else.
| Role | Interim Superintendent of Schools |
|---|---|
| Phone | 413-967-4271 |
| Website | wareps.org |
The School Committee
The Ware School Committee has five members, all elected town-wide to staggered three-year terms under section 7-4 of the town charter. Ware is a single-town district, so all five answer to Ware voters and nobody else. The committee sets district policy, approves the school budget, and hires and evaluates the Superintendent. The district’s own page titles its officers Chairman and Vice Chairman. Meetings are typically every other Wednesday in the Ware Junior Senior High School library, and they are public, which means a Ware student who shows up can speak.
Brian Winslow
Michael DuBois
Julie Slattery
Mel Whitham
Kevin Slattery
The district publishes each member’s email on its School Committee page at wareps.org, along with a single address that reaches the whole committee.
The District at a Glance
- Enrollment: 1,066 students, PreK through 12.
- Schools: three: Stanley M. Koziol Elementary, Ware Middle School, and Ware Junior/Senior High School.
- Graduation rate: 89.5%.
- State data: DESE profile (code 03090000).
Meetings & Participation
- When: typically every other Wednesday in the library at Ware Junior Senior High School, 237 West Street.
- Public comment: meetings are open, and the agenda states how to address the committee.
- Watch: School Committee meetings are recorded and carried by Ware Community Television, the town’s nonprofit cable access station on West Street.
- Agendas & minutes: posted on the district’s own Agendas and Minutes page at wareps.org.
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