Superintendent, Auburn-Washburn Unified School District , KS
Listed on 2025-12-14
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Education / Teaching
Education Administration, Middle School, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional
The Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 is seeking a superintendent beginning on July 1, 2026, with a base salary range expected to be $225,000 to $275,000; other benefits to be negotiated.
Auburn-Washburn School District serves 6,000 students in 128 square miles located in southwest Topeka, the state's Capital City, and Shawnee County. The district has 1,100 employees and an annual operating budget of $132 million.
Auburn-Washburn is an amazing place to learn and work due to our engaged patron and business community, informed parents who value the importance of an exemplary education, dedicated and talented administrators, teachers, and support staff, and outstanding students who come to school ready and willing to do their very best. We also provide a large variety of co-curricular, performing and fine arts, and athletic opportunities, and our students perform and compete extremely well with students in Kansas and the nation.
The Auburn-Washburn School District is dedicated to meeting the strengths, needs, and dreams of every child, every day. Our district includes seven elementary schools, each serving about 400 students. These schools feed into Washburn Rural Middle School and the new Washburn Rural North Middle School, which serves students in grades 6–8 and average about 700 students each. Both middle schools lead to Washburn Rural High School, a comprehensive 6A high school with just under 2,000 students.
In addition, the district offers an early childhood program for 250 three- and four-year-olds and an alternative learning center that provides tailored educational opportunities for students who need a different pathway to success. Across all schools, relationships come first. We work to build strong connections with students and families, creating the foundation for high academic achievement and the development of skills for lifelong success.
Mission:
Inspiring, challenging, and preparing every child, every day. Vision:
Auburn-Washburn schools provides a safe, enjoyable, and challenging school environment where students have the opportunity to achieve their maximum individual education potential. All students receive a balanced education where traditional academics are taught, creativity and innovation are cultivated, and skills for success are developed; preparing them to assume roles as responsible citizens in a global community, the workplace, and in life.
Core Values:
We believe learning is a lifelong process. The following values will help realize our vision:
Each student has different needs. Each student should have the opportunity, and be encouraged, to reach their potential. Each student is entitled to a safe, current, and well-maintained school environment.
Excellence requires building meaningful relationships with all stakeholders and especially with students. Excellence requires the commitment and judicious stewardship of community resources. Excellence prepares students to become happy, responsible, and productive citizens; to successfully live and work in a complex, ever-changing world. Excellence is a combination of academic performance and skills for success. Excellence must be a dynamic and engaging process in order to meet changing needs.
Excellence requires rigorous assessment and feedback of both students and faculty staff. Excellence requires focus on the future. Excellence depends upon effective resource management. Excellence, both academic and skills for success, should be recognized and celebrated.
Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Effective communication enhances trust and cooperation. Each student is responsible for their own actions. Responsibility for public education rests jointly with students, parents, teachers, and community.
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