Middletown School Board Is Interviewing Superintendent Candidates

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — The following is a public notice the Middletown school district is legally required to post as it interviews for a new school superintendent.

These interviews with superintendent candidates will be done by the board in private. The school district just has to notify the public the interviews are being done.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Middletown Township Board of Education will hold special executive session board meetings for the sole purpose of conducting superintendent candidate interviews as follows:

Dates:

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

PLACE: August T. Miner Administrative Offices
Bayshore Middle School
834 Leonardville Road, 2nd Floor, Leonardo

AT WHICH TIME the following matters of business will be conducted:

SPECIAL MEETING

1. Call to Order and Reading of the Sunshine Notice
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll Call
4. Resolution for Executive Session (Superintendent Candidate Interviews)
5. Reconvene to Public Session
6. Opportunity for Public Comment
7. Motion to Adjourn

As Patch reported July 22, more than 20 people applied so far to be the new Middletown school superintendent.

All the board members will review the applications, and then each board member is asked to select candidates they want to bring in for interviews, which start next Tuesday.

The Middletown school board engaged the New Jersey School Boards Association to help it do a superintendent search.

Currently, Kevin Cullen is interim superintendent of Middletown schools. The school board selected him to take over the district's top job because superintendent Jessica Alfone retired early; her last day was June 30.

Alfone retired early with two years still left in her five-year contract. Mary Ellen Walker, the superintendent before Alfone, quit early, too, with years still left in her contract.

The school board approved Cullen to be acting superintendent from July 1 of this year through 2027, or until the school district hires a permanent superintendent.

Cullen is being paid an additional $120 per day in addition to his current salary to do both jobs: acting superintendent and assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and special education.

Over 20 People Applied To Be The New Middletown School Superintendent (July 22)