Sumter County School District

Assistant Superintendent of Schools

Joel Camp 

Joel Camp brings nearly three decades of experience as an educator. As a lifelong resident of Sumter County Mr. Joel Camp is honored to serve our school community as Assistant Superintendent.

After graduating from Sumter County Schools, he attended Lake Sumter State College and then transferred to the University of Florida where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture specializing in Agricultural Education.

In 1997 Mr. Camp returned to Sumter County Schools after working in Lake County for a year. He spent 11 years teaching at South Sumter Middle and one more at SSHS before working as an Assistant Principal at SSM and SSHS for the next 9 years. In 2018 he was promoted to Principal at SSM where he served for 4 years until accepting a promotion to Director of Secondary.

In 2013 he married Elizabeth who is a teacher in Sumter County. They have two children Sidney (teaches in Sumter County) and Brent (works for a pharmaceutical company) that they are extremely proud of the adults they have become.