The committee that will govern the future Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical High School has begun the search for a superintendent amid concerns from some panel members the process is moving too quickly.

Set to open in the fall of 2014, the new school is being formed from the merger of the North Shore Technical High School  in Middleton and the Essex Agricultural and Technical High School on the Danvers-Middleton line, with the addition of part of the Peabody Veterans Memorial High School’s vocational program.