Freeport School District gets new superintendent
BUFFALO TWP — Ian Magness is the new superintendent of the Freeport School District.
The school board Wednesday night hired Magness, who is the superintendent of Leechburg School District in Armstrong County.
The board approved a five-year contract with Magness with an initial salary of $139,000. He will start Nov. 1 or sooner if possible.
Before Leechburg, he was the assistant superintendent at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, principal at Apollo-Ridge School District and principal of Mars Centennial School in Mars School District when it first opened in 2007.
He will take over at Freeport for program director Larry Robb, who has been the district’s acting superintendent since June when Chris DeVivo resigned. DeVivo left to become the superintendent of Armstrong School District.
School Board President Daniel Lucovich said of Magness, “We think he seems to fit the type of superintendent we want here at Freeport. He has a lot of talent, a lot of energy, and he has a lot of experience he brings to the table.”
