Donald P. Yates Primary School is hosting a retirement reception honoring Carolyn Ingram on Sunday, April 24, 2-4 p.m. at Yates Primary School.
Mrs. Ingram will retire after serving as Yates Primary School principal for the past 23 years. She taught in Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee in Knoxville and Hamilton County before starting at Cleveland City Schools in 1989 as the school-community coordinator at Blythe Avenue Elementary School. In 1992, Mrs. Ingram was named principal of Blythe Avenue Elementary School before moving to open a brand new Yates Primary School in 1993.
Over that time, there have been an estimated 2,500 students pass through the doors of Yates Primary.