Niceville High School’s Assistant Principal, Jerral Horton will be awarded Assistant Principal of the year by the school board at Monday night’s meeting.

Horton is a product of the Okaloosa School District – she is a graduate of Plew Elementary, Ruckel Middle School and Niceville High School.

She has been in the post of Assistant Principal since 2016. In that time, Niceville High School has excelled as an academic institution. The School is SACS-accredited and has a 97.7% graduation rate. Students averaged a 24.3 composite score on the ACT, and a mean score of 1180 on the SAT.

As part of her duties, Horton helps to manage almost 2,100 students and 155 faculty and staff.

Horton has a B.S. from Florida State University and a Master’s in Education from the University of West Alabama.