Nathan Bishop is the first superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.

He is succeeded by John Philbrick (1856), Edwin Seaver (1880), George Conley (1904),* Stratton Brooks (1906),* Franklin Dyer (1912), Frank Thompson (1918), Jeremiah Burke (1921), Patrick Campbell (1931), Arthur Gould (1937), Dennis Haley (1948), Frederick Gillis (1960), William Ohrenberger (1963), William Leary (1972), Marion Fahey (1975), Robert Wood (1978*), Robert Spillane (1981), Laval Wilson (1985*), Lois Harrison-Jones (1991*), Thomas Payzant (1995), Michael Contompasis (2006, interim), Carol Johnson (2007), John McDonough (2012, inerim), Tommy Chang (2015*), Laura Perille (2018, interim), Brenda Cassellius (2019*), and Mary Skipper (2022).