Flower Hill Administration
Principal
Flower Hill Primary School Principal Marlon C. Small began his career in the district in September 1999 as a fourth grade teacher at Huntington Intermediate School. Three years later he was named dean of students at the school, a position he held for a year before moving with his family to Georgia. He then went to work as a sixth grade social studies teacher in DeKalb County and the following year was named assistant principal at Margaret Winn Holt Elementary School in the Gwinnett County Public Schools.
Mr. Small returned to Long Island in July 2005 and was hired as assistant principal of Birchwood Intermediate School in the South Huntington school district. He was named Flower Hill principal for the school year beginning September 2006.
A 1992 graduate of SUNY College at Old Westbury with a bachelor’s degree in American studies, Mr. Small earned a master’s degree in elementary and special education at Adelphi University in 1999. He later obtained a Professional Diploma and his administrative certification at Dowling College in 2002.
Prior to coming to the district, Mr. Small was a case worker at Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth in Melville, where he assessed and matched foster children with appropriate homes, completed assessments of youth and family and developed goals and objectives for treatment and provided group, family and individual support to foster children and families