Janet Anderson, the veteran principal at South Pasadena High School, greets students during a previous school year. She announced this week that she is retiring after 41 years with South Pasadena Unified School District, the past 21 at SPHS.
After guiding decades of students, South Pasadena High School Principal Janet Anderson announced this week she is wrapping up her career and bidding a bittersweet farewell to the local school system.
Anderson plans to retire in August, capping a 41-year education career that took place entirely in her hometown. She has spent the last 21 years of that journey as the principal of SPHS, from which she graduated in the 1970s. She also served as principal of Marengo Elementary School for three years, earning that position after working as a teacher and assistant administrator at every other school in SPUSD.
“It’s not the average length of tenure for a high school principal,” Anderson quipped in a phone interview on Tuesday.
