Red Clay board names new superintendent following departure of Dorrell Green 

Why Should Delaware Care?
Since 2019, Dorrell Green has served as the superintendent of one of Delaware’s largest school districts. He has also served in multiple state task forces with the goal of improving Delaware education. On Wednesday, the school board announced that Deputy Superintendent Hugh Broomall will take over following Green’s departure. 

Two weeks after Delaware’s largest school district announced the departure of its prominent superintendent, its board unanimously approved a longtime district administrator to fill the leadership vacancy.  

On Wednesday night, the Red Clay Board of Education members revealed that Deputy Superintendent Hugh Broomall would become the district’s next top leader, effective July 17, on an interim basis. 

His ascension to the post follows the surprise announcement last month that Dorrell Green would leave the district to become superintendent at the Norristown Area School District in Pennsylvania.

Broomall has worked at the Red Clay Consolidated School District in varying capacities for more than two decades, starting as a principal of its Meadwood Program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in 2004. 

He has also previously served as the district’s human resources manager and assistant superintendent.

Though Broomall spoke during Wednesday’s school board meeting about the district’s code of conduct and cellphone policy, he did not comment on his ascension to the superintendent position. 

During Green’s final report to the board on Wednesday, he said Red Clay’s superintendent position “is like no other superintendency in the state of Delaware,” noting the complexity and pressures of the role. He also said that the district is in a “great position with the leadership that we have, both at the district and the building level.” 

As superintendent, Green led the district through a tumultuous COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing enrollment concerns, and the possibility of district consolidation. 

Now, Broomall will take over the post, just as state leaders consider advancing the district consolidation plan.  

Proposed last year by the state’s Reading Consortium, the plan calls for Delaware’s four northernmost school districts, including Red Clay, to combine into one. Green supported the consolidation plan as a voting member of the Reading Consortium. 

Last month in a statement to Spotlight Delaware, then-Red Clay school board president Victor Leonard said board members have “a huge task in the next few weeks in finding a leader that will guide our district through some troubling times.”

What led to this? 

There were no mentions of Green’s resignation during a Red Clay school board meeting last month. 

Four days after the meeting, the Norristown Area School District announced him as its next superintendent. The announcement quickly went viral on social media with multiple Red Clay employees writing that they had not received notification that Green would be leaving the district. 

Among those was Leonard, who indicated that he felt blindsided by the decision.

Green spoke during a Norristown Area School District board meeting in the days following the announcement, confirming that he accepted a parallel position in Norristown.

“They say sometimes when content, you should be content with what you have, but when complacency sets in, you need to change,” Green said during the meeting. 

Beyond his work as superintendent, Green has also served on multiple Delaware education committees.

In December, he was part of a presentation to lawmakers by school district leaders across the state that argued that a recent property reassessment, which was spurred by inequities in public education funding, ultimately left poorer districts in the lurch. 

He also currently serves as the president of the Delaware Chief School Officers Association, according to the Delaware Association of School Administrators website. 

In 2025, the association named him Delaware’s superintendent of the year.