The Freehold Borough K-8 School District will start the 2013-14 academic year with a new principal in each of the district’s three schools.
Joseph Jerabek, who was the principal of the Freehold Intermediate School, has left Freehold Borough for a position in the Keansburg School District.
Ronnie Dougherty, the principal at the Freehold Learning Center elementary school, will become principal of the intermediate school, according to Superintendent of Schools Rocco G. Tomazic.
Dougherty, of Freehold Borough, previously worked as a teacher in the district and as the director of curriculum and instruction. She is the president of the New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
William Smith, of Freehold Borough, has been named principal of the Freehold Learning Center. He previously taught fourth grade at that school.
Tomazic said Shauna Schubiger, who was the principal at the Park Avenue Elementary School, has moved out of the state. At a Board of Education meeting on Aug. 12, Patrick Mulhern was appointed as the principal of the Park Avenue Elementary School.
Mulhern, who is a resident of Freehold Township, previously worked as the director of the Greater New Brunswick Charter School, New Brunswick. He is a former language arts teacher.
Freehold Borough welcomed a new director of special programs on Aug. 1. Jennifer O’Shea comes to the district from Sea Girt, where she was the director of basic skills and a school psychologist.
Tomazic said O’Shea also has experience as a school psychologist in the Point Pleasant Borough School District.
“John Brovak was recently appointed as the new vice principal at the Freehold Intermediate School, replacing Michael D’Anna, whose term as an interim administrator expired,” Tomazic said.
Brovak previously worked as a health and physical education teacher in the Freehold Intermediate School and in the Park Avenue Elementary School. He is the site supervisor for the 21st Century after-school program in the district.
School board President Annette Jordan said the board is “excited to work with the new members of our administration. With Ronnie Dougherty’s knowledge of curriculum and her familiarity with our students, she is going to do a fantastic job” at the intermediate school.
Jordan said she is looking forward to working with Smith, who has been a teacher in the district for several years. She said Mulhern will bring, along with his leadership skills, “a new, outside perspective to the district.”
The Freehold Borough School District serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade and comprises more than 1,500 students.

