Plainfield Academy Administrator Becomes New Student Services Director

Submitted by Plainfield School District 202:

Plainfield Academy Assistant Principal Tim Albores will take a new position next school year as the Student Services department’s new assistant director.

The District 202 Board of Education approved naming Albores to the post at its regular meeting on May 13, 2013. Albores will replace current assistant director Joe Schimmel, who is resigning after a year in the role.

“We are very excited to be bringing Tim to the district office,” said Mina Griffith, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services.

“He has really proven his leadership abilities in his time at Plainfield Academy and we are confident he is going to do an excellent job serving all 30 of our schools,” she said.

Albores has served the last year as assistant principal at Plainfield Academy, District 202’s alternative school for middle and high school students. 

He started his professional career in District 202 working as a social worker at Heritage Grove Middle School from 2002-2003.

He also served as a social worker from 2003-2006 at the Joliet Alternate High School in Joliet, Illinois, and from 2006-10 at Komarek School in North Riverside, Illinois.

Albores then worked as a student services case manager for two years at Wrightwood Charter School in Chicago and then came back to District 202 last year.