New Freedom Elementary School Principal Selected

Freedom Elementary School’s Site-Based Decision Making Council has selected Leslie Lancaster to serve as principal beginning July 1. Officials with the school district say Lancaster is currently the principal at Sinking Fork Elementary School.

School district Superintendent Chris Bentzel said in a release he is excited about the Site-Based Decision Making Council’s selection of Lancaster as principal. He added she is a seasoned, successful, and accomplished principal in the Christian County School District. He noted her leadership will be an invaluable asset to Freedom Elementary School.

Lancaster said it’s been a tremendous honor to serve as principal at Sinking Fork Elementary school for the past four years. She added the valuable experience she has gained will be essential as she transitions to Freedom Elementary. She went on to say being a lifelong resident of Christian County, she is eager to see Freedom Elementary succeed, and she is looking forward to continuing the work of supporting staff and educating students toward academic excellence and moving the school to one of the top-performing schools in the school district.

According to school officials, Lancaster graduated from Christian County High School in 1993, at which time she began working as a special education instructional assistant in the district. She later earned her bachelor’s degree in education and began teaching in 2002 and served eleven years as an elementary teacher at Pembroke and Millbrooke Elementary Schools. Lancaster transitioned to Sinking Fork Elementary in 2013 where she served as instruction & behavior coach and later as assistant principal before becoming principal in 2018.

Lancaster, a graduate of Murray State University and Walden University, and her husband, Jim, live in Hopkinsville and have two sons and a daughter.