NASHVILLE, TN — Dr. Adrienne Battle is Director (Superintendent) of Metro Nashville Public Schools has spent almost her entire career at MNPS, previously serving as a math, reading and language arts teacher; an assistant principal, academic principal and executive principal; a turnaround coach for principals of the district’s priority schools; and as a community superintendent overseeing all schools in the Southeast quadrant of the city as well as high schools across the district.
A Nashville native, Dr. Battle is a graduate of the district’s John Overton High School, Missouri State University and Tennessee State University, where she earned her master’s, education specialist and doctorate degrees in Educational Administration and Supervision.
Under her leadership, MNPS was named a Level 5 district – the highest achievement – in the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System in both 2022 and 2023, and the district recently received national recognition in the Education Recovery Scorecard for its work on post-pandemic academic recovery, with Top 10 rankings among large urban districts for growth in both reading and math from 2022 to 2023.
Dr. Battle was named the Professional Educators of Tennessee’s 2022 Superintendent of the Year and was featured in the Nashville Post’s Most Powerful Women, and in 2021 she was named the Tennessee Principals Association’s Supervisor of the Year and received the Nashville NAACP’s Legacy Award.
She is a graduate of Leadership Nashville and is a member of Leadership Tennessee’s current class. In 2015 she received the William J. and Lucille H. Field Award in Support of Excellence in Tennessee Secondary Leadership from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as a result of leading Antioch High School to become the first zoned high school ever to be named a Tennessee Reward School, the top distinction a school can earn in Tennessee.
