Several administrative changes--including the appointments of Kyle Barrentine as principal at Noblesville Intermediate School and Ryan Rich as principal at Noblesville Middle School--have been approved by the Noblesville Board of School Trustees.

Jeff Bragg is returning to the school district's central administration office as director of operations, a position he had held until moving to the intermediate school as principal a year ago. He will oversee the construction of a new elementary school and other building projects that will begin in the next few months.

In addition, Jeff Bryant, an assistant principal at NHS, will move to the freshman campus as the lead administrator there. Andy Swickheimer, formerly the dean of students at the freshman campus, will replace Mr. Bryant as assistant principal at the main campus.

Mr. Barrentine moves to NIS from the middle school where he has been principal for the past two years. He previously was principal at Clinton Central Jr./Sr. High School in Michigantown.

As an assistant principal at Noblesville High School since the 2006-07 school year, Mr. Rich has been the lead administrator at the freshman campus. He came to Noblesville Schools in 1999 as an eighth-grade social studies teacher and became an assistant principal at the middle school in 2004. He moved to the high school two years later to prepare for the opening of the freshman campus.

Mr. Bryant joined the Noblesville High School staff as an English teacher in 2000 and has served the school as an assistant principal since 2006. Mr. Swickheimer came to Noblesville as a high school social studies teacher in 1999 and served the past school year as a dean of students at the freshman campus.

Mr. Bragg joined the intermediate school staff in 1996 as a physical education teacher. He left Noblesville in 2002 for an administrative position in Tipton, and returned to NIS as principal in 2004. He was named director of operations in January 2007 but returned to NIS amid budget cuts in 2009. His salary will be paid from the Capital Projects Fund and will not impact the district's General Fund.