Marlborough's New Superintendent Picked From Inside District

MARLBOROUGH, MA — The Marlborough School Committee this week voted to select Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Mary Murphy as the district's new superintendent.

The school committee picked Murphy for the position in a 6-1 vote on Monday with Mayor Arthur Vigeant voting for candidate Nan Skiff Murphy, an assistant superintendent in Marblehead Public Schools.

Mary Murphy began her education career in the 1990s in Cambridge Public Schools. She came to Marlborough Public Schools in 2003 serving as the assistant principal at Francis J. Kane Elementary. She took over as principal of Jaworek Elementary in 2005, and then served as the Charles Whitcomb School principal from 2011 to 2015.

"If I'm making a decision about what I want for the kids of Marlborough, and for the improvement for our students, I can tell you that Mary Murphy is going to be committed and dedicated to every single student," School Committee member Katherine Hennessey said in a news release. "And I will then extend that to every single staff member.”

The other three finalists for the superintendent job were Michael Baldassarre, the assistant superintendent for student services at Woburn Public Schools; Nan Skiff Murphy, the Marblehead Public Schools assistant superintendent of teaching and learning; and Timothy Sippel, the Worcester Public Schools manager of instruction and school leadership.

The finalists toured city schools and met with staff, parents and school committee members over the past two weeks. Marlborough received almost two dozen applications for the job.

In January, Marlborough Superintendent Michael Bergeron announced he would leave the role in June to take a job at Tabletop Tycoon, a New Hampshire-based publisher of tabletop games.

Murphy is expected to start in the job on July 1.