The Superintendent provides advice and support to the Board of Trustees and ensures board policy is implemented effectively. The superintendent is supported in this work by Assistant Superintendents and the Division Support Team. The Superintendent is also responsible for planning, organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating and evaluating administrative regulations and sound educational and business practices to achieve the Division's Vision, Mission, Values and Priorities.

James McCaig is the first Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools. McCaig served from July 20, 1906 to October 31, 1913. Ten permanent schools were built during the seven years that he served and five more were nearing completion at the time of his resignation. Superintendent McCaig was a progressive thinker in terms of educational philosophy. He stated that “The ultimate end of school work is character building”. He proposed expanded household science, music, and physical education classes in the belief that a richer curriculum would help keep pupils in school.

W.L. Richardson is the acting Superintendent for Edmonton Public Schools from November to December 1913.

William G. Carpenter is the second Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools. Carpenter served in this role from 1914 to 1923. At the time of his appointment, Carpenter was principal of Victoria High School. One of his first tasks as superintendent was to introduce a night school program for new Canadians. Throughout the First World War, Carpenter kept in close personal contact with most of the staff members who served in the military overseas.

Unlike his predecessor, James McCaig who used a horse-drawn rig for transport, Superintendent Carpenter used his automobile, which he purchased in 1919, when making school visits. In 1921, he applied to the Board to cover the cost of new tires, explaining that he had already spent $143.10 on tire repairs and that he used the car almost entirely for work. His request was denied; however his travel allowance was increased to $35/month.

Mr. Carpenter left his position as Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools to become principal of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary. He later became Alberta’s Provincial Director of Technical Education.

George McKee is the third Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools. McKee was appointed in 1924. He remained in this capacity for 17 years until his retirement in 1940. Periods of stability, depression and financial cutbacks were experienced during his tenure.

In his first year as Superintendent, McKee participated in opening ceremonies for three new schools: Garneau, Riverdale and Frank Scott (later renamed Eastwood). McKee was well liked by the teachers and remarkably few teachers resigned or left the Division during his time as Superintendent.

Ross Sheppard is the fourth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools. During the Sheppard years, the number of permanent schools increased from 30 to 63, student enrolment increased by almost 1,000 students per year, and permanent staff doubled. Teachers' salaries almost doubled from an average annual salary of $2088 in 1940 to $3896 in 1955. Per pupil costs of education increased from $89.19 to $238.25 during the same period.

Ross Sheppard is remembered as a man who tried to maintain close contact with the staff, even to the point of handing out cheques to all the teachers on the last day of June. Sheppard graciously thanked each teacher for his or her efforts during the year and took pride in calling each teacher by name, seldom making a mistake in doing so.

Ross Sheppard High School, built in 1957, was named in Sheppard's honour.

William P. Wagner is the fifth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Dr. Peter F. Bargen is the sixth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Tom Baker is the acting Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools from July 1967 to June 1968.

Dr. Roland W. Jones is the seventh Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Michael A. Strembitsky is the eighth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Angus McBeath is the tenth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Edgar Schmidt is the twelfth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Lyall Thomson is the eleventh Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Darrel Robertson is the thirteenth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.

Ron Thompson is the fourteenth Superintendent of Edmonton Public Schools.