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Founder’s Profile

Dr. Pearl Onukwugha is the President and Founder of Pearlville School. She is an experienced and highly accomplished educator with expertise in educational instruction/administration, school policy implementation, curriculum planning, and educational training and management.
She is a USA-certified school principal with over 20 years of teaching and administrative experience, 12 of which were in the US. Her philosophy of education is: Quality education is the right of every child, not a privilege!


Dr. Pearl Onukwugha is well-rounded in the field of education. She has an Ed.D in Organizational Leadership from Grand Canyon University, a Master’s degree in Literature from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, a second Master’s degree in Educational Administration from Grand Canyon University, Arizona, USA, and a Bachelor of Arts/Education degree in English from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In addition, she has over 400 hours of professional training to her credit in areas of curriculum and instructional planning, teacher development and school management.
Dr. Onukwugha belongs to many professional associations such as New Jersey Education Association, USA; Trenton Education Association, New Jersey and Nigerian Institute of Directors. She is the National Financial Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Women Academic Doctors (ANWAD), USA.


Her unequivocal commitment to the development of schools and the growth and well-being of students has made her a force to reckon with in the field of education. The founding of Pearlville School is no doubt a timely extension of her commitment to ensure that our children are provided values-based, student-centred and state-of-the-art education in the highly competitive global world of education.
Your child is in the RIGHT hands!