Kim Allen, the former principal of Huffman Elementary School in the Cahokia Unit School District, has been named director/principal of SIUE-East St. Louis Charter High School.
She returns to East St. Louis School District 189 after serving as assistant principal of Dunbar Elementary School from 2021 to 2024.
Allen was also assistant principal of East St. Louis Senior High School from 2018 to 2021 and was previously a special education teacher at that school.
She earned a master’s degree in educational administration from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2012, and a bachelor’s degree in special education from SIU-E in 2008.