Alva Review-Courier -

A special meeting of the Alva Board of Education has been scheduled for Monday at noon to accept the resignation of Superintendent Tim Argo. He will continue as superintendent through the end of the school’s calendar year on June 30, 2024.

Argo was hired as superintendent in a special school board meeting on Feb. 22, 2018, to replace Steve Parkhurst who had announced his retirement.

Argo came to Alva when his dad, Ron Argo, moved to town to serve as minister of the First Baptist Church. He attended the Alva schools until his father took a job at Deer Creek of Edmond and the family moved there during Argo's freshman year of high school.

After graduating from Deer Creek of Edmond, Argo obtained his bachelor's degree in education, with a history emphasis. He started his classroom career at Deer Creek High School teaching freshman geography. In 1998, he and April moved to Alva where he joined the faculty at Alva Middle School, teaching seventh-grade geography and coaching boys’ basketball and track.

In 2007, Argo joined the education staff at Bill Johnson Correctional Center as the site administrator. After five years there, he moved back into the Alva school system as principal at Lincoln School. He was promoted to assistant superintendent in January 2017.

Argo recently earned his doctorate. He is married to April Argo, who teaches kindergarten at Washington Early Childhood Center.

At the meeting Monday, the board of education will meet in a closed executive session to discuss the employment of a new superintendent for next school year. When they return to open session, they will vote on approving a contract with the Oklahoma State School Boards Association to assist in the search for a superintendent.