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The 2024-2025 school year is Mr. Abell’s third year as the Superintendent of Griggsville-Perry School District.

Mr. Abell graduated from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsvillein 1996 with a BS in Kinesiology and completed his Special Education course work at MacMurray in 1997.  Mr. Abell spent two years teaching high school special education at New Berlin and the next nineteen years in Scott County as teacher and coach at Bluffs, ten years, and Winchester for nine years. 

In 2017 Mr. Abell received a Master Degree from the University of Illinois Springfield in Educational Leadership in 2017 and in 2021 received a Certificate of Advanced Studies for Superintendent and Chief School Business Official Endorsements.

Mr. Abell served as a Jr-Sr High Principal for five years prior to becoming Superintendent at Griggsville-Perry in 2022. Mr. Abell is also on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association.

Mr. Abell served 21 years in the Air Nation Guard, retiring in 2010.

Mr. Abell and his wife, Kristy, have lived in Jacksonville since 1996.  They have four children, Ellie (24), Katie (23), Gus (20) and Adam (16).