Mr. Lichte is a a fantastic steward of community money. He serves a dual role as principal and superintendent, and balances the sometimes competing interests of those roles well. He has maintained a high level of programming throughout the past few difficult fiscal years, and has attracted and developed high quality staff. He has a vision for the school to carry it through the challenges of a declining in-district student population.
Through independent measures the school is among the best in the state, and is large part due to his leadership, getting out of the way of his qualified staff, and ensuring that they have the technology and time to achieve their best for the students. The district has also attracted more open enrollment students that it is able to admit each year, a strong signal that something is going very right at this little school.