PMHS Welcomes New Superintendent

A meet-and-greet was held at Prospect Mountain High School Thursday evening

where students and community members had the chance to meet a face that will be very
familiar to the school district in the next couple months. Tim Broadrick has now been
appointed the superintendent position at PMHS starting July 1 with a two-year-contract.
Current Superintendent Robert L. Cullison Jr. is retiring after working with the high
school for about seven years.
School Board member Lyla Adkins of Barnstead was one of the people who reached
out to Broadrick after examining over 30 applications. She said it was his personality, his
educational theory, and his communication with his previous place of work, ShawSheen Valley
Regional Vocational-Technical School District, that got him the position.
PMHS Principle J. Fitzpatrick said, “Tim was very dynamic and engaging; That’s
something the committee and the school board really took a liking to.”
Broadrick is finishing his fifteenth year at ShawSheen Valley Tech located in Billerica,
Massachusetts where he is currently the district's Superintendent, a position he obtained a
year after teaching graphic arts there. He explained, “Even though I’m from a ‘vocational
school’ I have been the superintendent of a district that has a high school that has all of these
things (school subjects as in math, history, etc being taught).”
Adkins and the rest of the board did not take this decision lightly. During the hiring
process the board and Broadrick had multiple video interviews, then after becoming a finalist,
went on a school visit and tour and met the administrative staff. “Your superintendent is the
top of the chain. The superintendent is kind of the business leader, so it’s really important,
especially when you have a tight budget, that you have somebody qualified,” Atkins said.
“Hiring anyone new is always scary, whether it be a superintendent or an english teacher or
math teacher. I’m going in with an optimistic concern, just like I would with any new employee
at the start,” said Fitzpatrick.
Broadrick is doing a little downsizing with his transition to the new school. Shawsheen
Valley Tech has a wider reach with its students and has a higher capacity than PMHS.
Broadrick said, “We are just a little north of Boston and it serves five towns and they have
about 1,300 students there.” He continued on to add how Alton and Barnstead residents go to
PMHS with a count currently just under 500 students.
“My career goal was to enter the comprehensive school world.” Although PMHS is a
one school district like Shawsheen Valley Tech, he said this opportunity gives him, “a chance
to grow beyond the vocational-world.” In addition, Broadrick said that he is planning to work
on achieving his Doctorate soon.
Now that the hiring process is over, in the meantime, Broadrick said he will be traveling
to Alaska to visit his daughter, and will be focused on trying to get to know everyone in the
PMHS district. “I’m coming into a community that is already successful … so it’s really
important in that situation for me to take time just getting to know everybody and
understanding what’s here that works.”