Christa Warner will serve as assistant principal at Buerkle Middle School, effective July 1.
The Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously during a May 12 closed session to extend a one-year contract to Warn-er at a salary of $77,708.
Warner will take over for Mark Delaney, who has elected to take a position nearer to his home in the Francis Howell School District. She currently serves as a seventh-grade communications arts teacher at Ber-nard Middle School. From 2000 to 2003, she taught sixth grade at Forder Elemen-tary School.
Before that, Warner was an elementary school teacher at Hancock Place Elemen-tary School from 1995 to 2000 and a director with the LaPetite Acad-emy child-care facility from 1987 to 1992.
After receiving her bachelor of science degree in education at the University of MissouriSt. Louis, Warner earned her master’s degree in elementary education from Southwest Baptist University. She holds an Administrative Initial Certificate (K-8), a Middle School Certificate (5-8), Elementary Certificate (1-6) and Special Education Certificate (K-9).