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Dwayne Huff
HILLSVILLE — A Carroll native and former CCHS teacher has been hired as the county’s new schools superintendent.
Brian Spencer, chairman of the Carroll County School Board, announced on April 8 that the superintendent position will be filled by Dwayne Huff.
Schools Superintendent Dr. Mark Burnette is retiring at the end of this school year, as he announced last year. Huff will begin his new position July 1.
Huff, who taught at Carroll County High School from 2013 to 2018, is currently the division superintendent of Craig County schools.
“The board is pleased to welcome him back home,” Spencer said. “Mr. Huff comes with a lot of excitement and energy and will be an asset to our system.”
As an educator for more than 13 years, he taught biology and agriculture.
Huff was hired as Craig County superintendent in 2023, after serving as director and principal of the Career & Technical Education (CATE) Center for Grayson County Public Schools, a job he began in 2018.
According to an article from the New Castle Record in Craig County, Huff earned his Master of Science in Educational Administration from Radford University, a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Liberty University, and a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Management from Virginia Tech.
Huff also worked as an area forester with the Virginia Department of Forestry and served in lead roles with many conservation organizations, including the New River Soil & Water Conservation District, Virginia Forest Service and the New River Highlands Resource & Conservation District, according to the News Castle Record.
The hiring announcement at Tuesday’s school board meeting came after a lengthy search process for the Carroll County School Board.
In December 2024, the board held a public hearing for citizens to share their views on the qualifications for the next superintendent, and solicited comments in a survey. Hundreds of responses were submitted, school officials said.
The school board formally advertised the position on Jan. 15, accepted applications through Feb. 19, and then conducted interviews with finalists from March 17-April 4.
“I am excited to have the opportunity to return to the place where my educational career started,” Huff said in a statement on Tuesday.
He said Carroll County “is an exceptional school system, and it is my goal to ensure we maintain the highest quality educational standards, while always working to improve our schools and community.”
Huff attended Hillsville Elementary School, Hillsville Intermediate and Carroll County High School. He said the school system “provided the foundation that enabled me to be in this role. To have the opportunity to come back home and serve the people of Carroll County as their superintendent is an honor of a lifetime!”
Huff will oversee Carroll’s nine schools, with an average of 3,265 students; as well as 551 full-time staff members and an operating budget of around $57 million.
