Wake County school leaders have hired a new area superintendent and named the person who will lead a new single-sex school for male students.

On Tuesday, the school board hired Kevin Hobbs to fill the vacant position of Area Superintendent for Central Wake, covering a number of Raleigh schools in and around the Beltline. Hobbs has been the assistant superintendent for leadership and development in the Houston Independent School District since 2010.

Although Hobbs spent much of his career working in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, he was a teacher at Garner High School from 1993 to 1995. His salary will be $120,000 a year.

UPDATED TO INCLUDE HOBBS' SALARY

Wake County's magnet school selection lottery is being discussed for possible use in the  Houston Independent School District.

Houston school officials hired Ramey Beavers, Wake's former senior director of student assignment, and Caroline Massengill, Wake's former senior director of magnet programs, to be consultants. Houston school leaders are considering whether to go with Wake's approach of families applying to magnet programs instead of to specific magnet schools.

"Caroline has been across the country working with magnets," said Michele Pola, chief of staff in Houston schools in a Wednesday article on Texas Watchdog. "They were available, and she has extensive experience."