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Cape grad tapped to lead Rehoboth Elementary

Amanda Archambault named principal
May 29, 2018

As Amanda Archambault wraps up her second year as Sussex Consortium assistant principal, she’s also packing for a move to her new office.

Archambault heads to Rehoboth Elementary School, where she’ll succeed retiring Principal Susan Donahue. 

“The Consortium has a special place in my heart, but I’m excited about this wonderful opportunity,” she said. “I hear great things about the staff at Rehoboth Elementary, and I’m ready to get rolling.”

Archambault will preside over the school’s final year in its current building; the new Rehoboth Elementary School will open in fall 2019.

A 1994 Cape High grad, Archambault first entered college as an occupational therapy student. While working with autistic children, she found her true calling.

“I knew I wanted to help kids,” she said. “When I started working with kids in the autistic program, I just loved it, so I changed my major.”

She received her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Delaware, and became a Consortium paraprofessional in 1999 while she pursued her master’s degree in special education at Wilmington University.

Archambault was named Consortium Teacher of the Year in 2009. She left the Consortium in 2010 for a position at Shields Elementary, where she earned Teacher of the Year honors for 2017, the same year she was named Consortium assistant principal.

Her Cape roots go way back. Archambault’s mother, Lynda Clifton, is a Rehoboth High School graduate who worked in the Cape district office for 29 years. Her father, Ray Clifton, a Milton High School graduate, owned and operated the longtime Center Barber Shop in Midway. 

She and husband Ryan, who runs an irrigation business, have two children. Chase is a Shields Elementary fifth-grader and Haley, a Beacon Middle School seventh-grader.

“I wouldn’t send my kids anywhere else than Cape,” she said. “They’re getting the best education, and there is a sense of pride here that makes you feel good to be part of something so special.”

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