| 1922 – 1930 | Principals at Austin Junior High School / Austin High School at corner of Grant Avenue and Elm Street:·
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| 1930 – 1937 | Horace B. Fort
First Austin HS Principal |  |
| 1938 – 1951 | W. W. Wimberly |  |
| 1951 – 1956 | Keith Appleby |  |
| 1957 – 1970 | Charles (Red) Harris |  |
| 1971 – 1976 | Robert E. Taylor |  |
| 1977 – 1990 | Aubrey Cherry |  |
| 1990 – 1993 | John Doran |  |
| 1994 – 1995 | Efren Yturralde
Only ex-Austin student to become principal at AHS |  |
| 1996 – 2000 | Dianne Jones
Austin’s First Woman Principal |  |
| 2001 – 2003 | Hector Munoz |  |
| 2003 – 2004 | Cheryll Felder |  |
| 2004 – 2008 | Angelo Pokluda |  |
| 2008 – 2013 | John Tanner |  |
| 2014 – 2018 | Craig Kehrwald |  |
| 2014 – 2024 | Cynthia Severns-Ponce |  |
| 2024 – Present | Maribel Ruiz |  |