Former student takes helm of Boulder Elementary School

Jeff Elliott has returned home to Boulder as the Boulder Elementary School superintendent and principal.

Elliott, 55, a Boulder native and lifelong educator, was appointed to the position by the Boulder Elementary School Board of Trustees this summer, following the departure of longtime superintendent and principal Maria Pace, who held the role since 2012 and left at the end of the past school year.

Before he began his career in education, Elliott attended Boulder Elementary, where his mother, Shirley Elliott, was a 3rd grade teacher. He graduated as part of the Jefferson High School class of 1984. His father, Hank Elliott, was the physical education teacher and vice principal there.