The Superintendents

1953 – present

The office: The superintendency is the corporation's executive office, held under the elected board. The record read for this section carries the office at full size from 1993 forward; of the earlier holders it documents two at their places in the school newspapers of their day — Dr. Alex Jardine, superintendent in 1953, and Monte Sriver, superintendent about 1991. The full nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century roster of the office is not carried in the sources read here and is not reconstructed.

The modern succession: Dr. Virginia Calvin held the office 1993 to 2000; the new Riley High School carried below is credited to her administration. Dr. Joan Raymond followed, in office from 2000 to 2006; Plan Z, the reorganization carried in its own entry below, was hers, implemented from the 2003–04 school year, with the attendance boundaries redrawn under the consent decree. Dr. Robert L. Zimmerman served 2006 to 2008. James Kapsa, who began as interim, served 2008 to 2011. Dr. Carole Schmidt served 2011 to 2016. Dr. Kenneth Spells served 2016 to 2019.

Cummings and Eid: Dr. C. Todd Cummings took the office in 2019. In February 2025 the board placed him on administrative leave; he resigned effective 30 June 2025, with a payment of $225,000 for the balance of his contract, as the South Bend Tribune reported the settlement. Mansour Eid, a district administrator, stepped in as acting superintendent on 19 February 2025 and was named superintendent from 5 May 2025. He announced in June 2025 that he would stay through the 2025–26 school year, at a salary of $186,000; on 12 January 2026 the board renewed his contract for 2026–27 by a vote of six to none, one member abstaining, with a raise of more than $25,000. In October 2026 Eid announced that he will retire on 30 June 2027, and the district prepared to search for his successor in the months ahead. The circumstances argued around the Cummings departure are a dispute of the present day and belong to City Controversies; what belongs here is the succession, and it stands as printed.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune — the Cummings leave, resignation and $225,000 settlement (2025); the Eid renewal of 12 January 2026; and the report of 9 October 2026 of Eid's announced retirement on 30 June 2027.
2. Indiana State Board of Accounts, schedule of officials for the corporation — Eid acting superintendent 19 February to 4 May 2025, superintendent from 5 May 2025.
3. Joan Raymond, her own published account of her tenure — in office from the fall of 2000 to 2006, and Plan Z's implementation from 2003–04.
4. The Adams Tower and the Riley Review, the student newspapers of Adams and Riley high schools — Dr. Alex Jardine superintendent in 1953; Monte Sriver superintendent about 1991; and the credit given Dr. Calvin for the new Riley.
5. The corporation's standard reference record — the succession Calvin, Raymond, Zimmerman, Kapsa, Schmidt, Spells, Cummings, with its years.