Growing up, Principal Nika Davis never had a place to call home. She moved about 26 times going from Texas to Florida, Idaho, California and back.

Even into her adult life, Davis went down many career paths that ultimately weren’t for her. She wanted to be a cardiologist, an accountant, and an attorney. She fell in love with business law, which eventually led to her teaching career.

Through all of her hard work, she found it difficult to find a constant. Until she came to Boswell, which is now her home.

“I’ve been here for 11 years, this is my eighth year as the principal,” Davis said.

Most high school principals stay for about 3 to 5 years until they move on to something else, according to Davis, but she has no desire to go anywhere else.

“I mean, I just absolutely love it,” Davis said. “I feel like it’s where I was meant to be.”

Before becoming a principal, or even an administrator, Davis was a teacher who taught seven social studies classes, primarily AP Government.

“When I became a teacher, I didn’t think that I would do anything but be a teacher,” Davis said.

Davis’ parents were both educators, so it was something she grew up with.

“As a first year teacher, I didn’t experience a lot of the same things that the other first year teachers did,” Davis said. “I really just took to it very quickly.”

Davis then became an academic principal for 10 years, three of which were spent here at Boswell so she could become a principal.

“What really inspired me is that I was the person kind of behind the principal and I was doing a whole lot, and so it really helped me build confidence in that, ‘I can do this,’” Davis said. “I want to bring those ideas forward.”

Davis said she loves her job, and she wakes up every day wanting to come to work.

“I have a lot of joy in what I do,” Davis said. “And I love kids. I love being around students.” Davis wanted Boswell to be a place where students would want to go, and the staff is just as important to her.

She refers to them as “staffulty,” which is short for staff, faculty, and family.

“We have a large percentage of our staffulty that graduated from Boswell and have come back home, and that to me is like the epitome of a Pioneer because they want to give back,” Davis said. “They’ve gone, they’ve challenged themselves, but then they come back home, and that’s just a very, very important piece to me.”

Davis has always been seeking a place that she can truly call home, and now she has found her home and her family within the Boswell community.

“If someone asked me where I was from, I was like okay, I can tell you all the places that I’ve lived, but I can’t tell you a place that I’m from,” Davis said. “This is the first place that I could say that. Boswell is my home.”