The Duneland School Board plans to have a replacement in place for Superintendent Chip Pettit by the time his contract expires at the end of June.
After Monday’s brief school meeting, School Board President Brandon Kroft told the Post-Tribune that the board has already had a couple of private sessions to discuss how the superintendent’s job will be filled.
A formal process for selecting a new superintendent will be settled and announced at the Duneland School Board meeting in March, Kroft said.
Pettit, 51, revealed last week that he has accepted a job as superintendent for Hinsdale Township High School District 86 in Illinois, which serves a cluster of upscale suburban communities about 20 miles west of Chicago.
Kroft was on the school board in 2019 when they selected Pettit as superintendent. Pettit at the time was the principal for Crown Point High School, where he had also once served as the school’s head football coach.
Pettit was chosen as the 2026 Superintendent of the Year for District 1 by the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents. District 1 includes Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton, Porter, Pulaski and Starke counties.
Jim Woods is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
