Patricia Coughlin Adams recently arrived in West Lake Hills and is getting accustomed to her new duties as Trinity’s Episcopal School’s new Head of School.

  

Adams was hired last November after an exhaustive nationwide search.  She was previously the Head of School at the Emerson School in Ann Arbor, Mich., an independent kindergarten-eighth-grade school for gifted and academically talented students.

She also spent 27 years at the St. John’s School in Houston, beginning as a second-grade teacher and serving as assistant Head of Lower School, Head of Lower School and eventually becoming the Head of Lower and Middle Schools. She was nominated by the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University as an outstanding school head in 2007 and served as President of the Association of Independent Michigan Schools.

“I’m very excited to come home to Texas, a state my husband, Dave, and I grew to love during our nearly 30 years here,” says Adams. “Trinity is on a steady path to a very bright future, and I’m pleased to be a part of such a young and dynamic place. 

“My first priority is to get to know the students, teachers and parents. It’s always so much fun when people drop by during the summer months – schools are very quiet places during the summer, and we love seeing our students and their families.”

Trinity Episcopal School was founded in 1999 with a single classroom of 13 first-graders and has grown to 390 students on a three-building, 15-acre campus. The school serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade and offers enriched academics in a nurturing and diverse environment as part of a commitment to the school’s mission and core values: a Christian foundation, enriched academic excellence, a diverse community, and commitment to family.