Principal Maldonado Pérez is a bilingual educator and leader. He started his teaching career as a middle school teacher in Mexico City, then he moved to Minnesota and continued his teaching career as an elementary teacher. He has experience in full-immersion, dual-immersion, IB, and AVID settings.

Principal Maldonado Pérez was a PAR mentor and, most recently, he served as assistant principal at Creative Arts Secondary in Saint Paul Public Schools.