Lincoln Public Schools announced Tuesday that Northwest High School Principal Cedric Cooper has accepted a position at Omaha Benson High School starting with the 2026-2027 school year.
Cooper will finish the school year at Northwest before starting his new duties at Omaha Public Schools in July. He was named principal at Northwest in 2021 and helped open Lincoln’s seventh high school in 2022. Prior to opening Northwest, Cooper was the principal at Schoo Middle School, a role he held since 2018.
Omaha is where Cooper started in education as part of the Avenue Scholars Foundation in Omaha for four years after teaching at Omaha Northwest High School from 2000 to 2011.