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Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent Beth Everitt is one of three finalists as superintendent for the Aiken County Public Schools in South Carolina.

Everitt said Tuesday she will hear by early next week whether she landed the job in the 25,000-student district.

The Aiken Board of Education has a special meeting scheduled Monday to select its new leader.

Everitt said she has a meeting scheduled today with Albuquerque Board of Education President Paula Maes to discuss her departure, if in fact she is hired by the Aiken board.

The Aiken board has indicated it wants its new superintendent on the job in early 2008, which means Everitt would have to leave Albuquerque before the end of her contract June 30. But Everitt said she has promised the Albuquerque board to help with the transition to a new superintendent here.

"I'll work with the board and keep that promise," she said.

The Albuquerque board has set a tentative hiring date for early March for Everitt's successor.

The two other Aiken finalists are local candidates, but Everitt said she has a connection to the Carolinas. Her hometown is Goldsboro, N.C.

Everitt's 85-year-old mother and her sister still live in North Carolina. Everitt's husband also has family in the South, she said.

"My mother's in excellent health, and I want to enjoy that," she said.

Asked if Aiken was her top choice of districts to work for, Everitt said, "Very much so."

She said the Aiken district, while smaller than Albuquerque — which has 87,000 students — has similar challenges, such as low performing schools and needy students. It also has "pockets of excellence" she would want to duplicate and expand, Everitt said.