Mount St. Joseph High School announced Jan. 17 that a unanimous vote by its board of directors led to the appointment of George Andrews Jr. as its next president.
Andrews will begin his three-year term in July, according to a release from the school.
He is leaving York Catholic High School, where he had been principal for 14 years.
Andrews began teaching at Mount St. Joe, an all-boys Catholic high school in Baltimore, in 1987 and was a social studies teacher for 11 years, according to the release.
In 1998, Andrews accepted an offer to become principal of York Catholic in York, Pa.
The Pennsylvania school, founded in 1927, has an enrollment of 636 boys and girls in grades 7-12, according to its web site.
Mt. St. Joe, an all-boys school which began in 1877, has an enrollment of 1,052 in grades 9-12.
Andrews will commute from York to the Irvington while his children attend York Catholic.
His appointment comes a little more than a month after Brother James Kelly, the school's second-longest tenured president, died after long battle against prostate cancer.
Andrews graduated from St. Mary's Ryken High School, a Catholic coed high school in St. Mary's County.
He and Kelly served together on the school's board in the early 1990s.
Both St. Mary's Ryken and Mt. St. Joe are sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers.