Three candidates for the Wenatchee High School principal position will be heard by the community tonight at a public forum scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in the WHS new commons.

Jay Tyus, Eric Anderson, and Jerry Holsten are the three candidates out of six who advanced from yesterday’s round of interviews. The committee consisted of 12 adult officials, and each candidate was led on a tour by five WHS students.

Tyus is currently the principal at Tonasket Middle School, which had 227 students in May 2014. He has served as a principal at Mabton High School and as a principal at Waterville Secondary School. He has experience as an athletic director, teacher, and coach at Ephrata High School.

Anderson is the current principal at Clarkston High School, which had 730 students in May 2014. He served as an assistant principal at John R. Rogers High School in the Spokane School District for five years prior to that. CHS was the winner of Washington state’s “School of Achievement” award in 2014 for its high progress and growth in math and graduation rate.

Holsten currently serves as principal at South Kitsap High School, which had 1,929 students last May. Before that, he was a principal at Selah High School. He also has experience as a math teacher, coach, and club adviser.

Candidates will answer questions at tonight’s forum. The community will have a chance to provide feedback, which will be evaluated for the selection of a new principal, Superintendent Brian Flones said in an email this morning.

Current WHS Principal Bob Celebrezze accepted a position as principal at Clovis Point Intermediate School in March. He takes over there July 1.

The district will then determine if a site visit is necessary to the candidates’ schools or if any additional reference checks are needed, Flones said.

“Our goal is to announce it or have it on the agenda for next Tuesday’s board meeting but it all depends on the outcomes of the information and steps that I just noted,” Flones wrote in his email.