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Donna Ragsdale
Donna has served as the principal of Prince Hall Elementary School since 2011. Under Donna’s leadership, the school achieved four straight years of improvement on the district’s School Progress Report (SPR). Prince Hall also improved student attendance, increasing students with 95% attendance from 38% to 48%. In 2018-19 Prince Hall had zero students with in-school suspensions and 98.6% of students had no out-of-school suspensions. In addition, the school was a winner of the district’s Mad Breakfast Challenge for increasing the school’s breakfast participation rate from 46% to 89%.
Donna has been an educator since 1998. Prior to becoming a principal, Donna served as an elementary and middle school teacher, school-based math teacher leader, and dean of students. She also served as principal of James Alcorn School. Donna served on the Neighborhood Network VI Principal Advisory Board from 2018 to 2020. Donna grew up in Philadelphia and attended Murrell Dobbins High School.
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