Principal of Academic and Behavior School East
Email: mlove@hcde-texas.org

Veteran educator Mercedes Love is the principal of Academic and Behavior School (ABS) East. She previously served as an assistant principal at HCDE’s Highpoint School, where she helped students with special needs succeed. She is passionate about working with disabled students and their families and aims to build trust and relationships with them and the school’s client districts.

Love started her career in her hometown of New Orleans and later worked as a special education instructional specialist in Sheldon and Humble independent school districts. She joined HCDE in January 2015 and has been a leader in the Special Schools Division.

Love holds a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education and teaching from Southern University at New Orleans and a Master of Education in educational administration from Prairie View A&M University.

She is a member of the Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators (HAABSE) and the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (TASSP).  

She is married and has four sons and 11 grandchildren.