This is a list of principals for SHHS donated by Lynna Kay Shuffield
| Hildreth Hosea Smith | 1878 - 1879 |
| Frances "Fannie" Smith Whiteside (Mrs. J. R.) | 1879 - 1879 |
| Miss Eunice Hokins Smith | 1879 - 1881 |
| Peyton Gwin Haliburton/Halyburton | 1881 - 1882 |
| Justin Edwards Dow | 1882 - 1885 |
| Oscar Henry Cooper | 1885 - 1886 |
| Christian William Welch | 1887 - 1892 |
| Andrew Edmondson "Eddy" Kilpatrick | 1892 - 1893 |
| Thomas Green Harris | 1893 - 1895 |
| Samuel Denis Magers | 1895 - 1900 |
| William Gilmore Smiley | 1902 - 1913 |
| Frank Murphy Black | 1913 - 1914 |
| William Gilmore Smiley | 1914 - 1918 |
| Frank Murphy Black | 1918 - 1923 |
| William J. Moyes | 1923 - 1937 |
| William Samuel Brandenberger | 1937 - Feb 1952 |
| Aaron Carlyle Fry | Feb 1952 - May 1952 |
| William Harry Powell | 1955 - 1959 |
| Kenneth Franklin Wilbanks | 1969 - 1973 |
| William Clifford Hollingshead | 1973 - 1979 |
| Glenwood Louis Prenzler | 1979 - Aug 1989 |
| Paul Campbell | Aug 1989 - Aug 1993 |
| Hilbert Joseph Bludau, Jr. | Sept 1993 - May 1994 |
| Jose Benjamin "Ben" Azios, Jr. | 1994 - May 1996 |
| Roberto A. Gonzalez | Sept 1996 - 2003/2004 |
| Mr. Macey | 2003/2004 |
| Aida Tello | 2004 - May 2008 |
| Jane Crump | May 2008 - current |