• Superintendent of Schools

    Logan W. Brown 

    Mr. Logan Brown is honored to serve the students, faculty, staff, families and community of Sumter County as your new Superintendent of Schools. 

    Mr. Brown was born and raised in the southern part of Sumter County. His great-grandfather, Ray Robbins, was the first employee of SECO and later became President of its Board of Directors. He was a passionate advocate for agriculture and the FFA in Sumter County. His grandmother, Bernice Robbins, dedicated over thirty years to Sumter District Schools, working at both South Sumter Middle School and Bushnell Elementary School until her retirement in 2005.

    Mr. Brown attended Bushnell Elementary and South Sumter Middle before graduating from South Lake High School. He received a baseball scholarship for college and later became the first in his family to graduate from a post-secondary institution. Mr. Brown earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Management and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Midway College in Kentucky.  Before his career in education, he worked in healthcare administration in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Nashville, Tennessee.

    In 2016, he married his wife Tracey, and returned to central Florida to start a family in Sumter County. Mrs. Brown accepted a teaching position in Lake County and he began his educational career at South Sumter Middle School in 2017. He worked at South Sumter Middle for five years and most recently taught Business and Geometry at The Villages Charter High School in Middleton. Mrs. Brown is a teacher at Webster Elementary and their three children attend Webster Elementary.

    Superintendent Brown’s leadership philosophy builds upon The Nine Principles of Quint Studer, which guide professionals towards excellence by identifying behaviors that enhance performance, support organizational excellence, and foster a success-oriented culture. These principles require one to: 

    1. Commit to Excellence by setting high expectations to achieve results while living out mission and values;
    2. Measure the Important Things by continuously tracking progress to achieve results with an improvement mindset;
    3. Build a Culture around Service by serving others with great care and concern;
    4. Develop Leaders to Develop People by coaching others to be their best at work;
    5. Focus on Employee Engagement by attending to aspirations and desires in the workplace.
    6. Be Accountable by committing to individual accountability to achieve organizational goals;
    7. Align Behaviors with Goals and Values by applying consistent practices to move the organization in a positive direction;
    8. Communicate at All Levels by helping people know why what they do matters; and
    9. Recognize and Reward Success by valuing and appreciating people who work together to get results.

    The Superintendent of Schools is an elected position in Sumter County and serves the citizens through a four-year term. Mr. Brown can be contacted at (352) 793-2315, extension 50208.