The Shelby County Board of Education approved Jay Peoples to be the district’s new High School Coordinator.  Presently Peoples is the principal of Helena High School.

Prior to that position, he served as the principal at Chelsea High School.  Peoples has worked in public education for twenty-three years. During that time he has served as a teacher and/or administrator at every level of education: elementary, middle, high, junior college and college level.

Peoples has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Lee University.  He also acquired a Master of Arts Degree in English and a Master of Arts in Administration and Educational Leadership Certification from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.