Wayne Rodolfich has served as superintendent of the Pascagoula-Gautier School District for the past 14 years.
Under his leadership, the PGSD recently won 24 PREPS Value Added Awards recognizing schools deemed as “adding value” because they are performing significantly better than other schools with comparable socioeconomic circumstances. The PGSD also won the Mississippi School Board Association Lantern and Torch awards for its test scores on the Mississippi Department of Education’s Accountability Standards.
Rodolfich led the district in being awarded the 2019 Mississippi Association of Partners in Education Governor’s Award for Exemplary District-Community Partnership and won the honor of 2018 Mississippi Computing Education Association’s Technology Administrator of the Year award.
Named to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame, and the St. Martin High School Hall of Fame, Rodolfich won the National School Public Relations Golden Achievement Award for his READ! READ! READ! campaign, the Above and Beyond Award from the Mississippi Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves, and the Mississippi School Public Relations Golden Medallion award for the district’s BE GREAT! campaign in 2017.
A Terrel H. Bell National Leadership Award winner, Rodolfich has won a number of national, regional and state awards including the Spirit of Mississippi Main Street Award and the Miss. Association of Partners in Education Governor’s Award for his creation of the Aaron Jones Family Interactive Center, an interactive children’s museum where parents and children can learn and play together.
Rodolfich won the National Crystal Star Award for Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention and Recovery for his Destination Graduation dropout prevention program and led the school district in winning America’s Promise 100 Best Communities in America for Young People for three consecutive years.