A longtime Brockton school administrator with deep ties to the city has been named interim superintendent of the 16,500-student school district, as its current chief prepares to leave for the state’s top education post.

John Jerome, the current deputy superintendent and Brockton’s former executive director of teaching and learning for grades 6 to 8, easily won the vote of the city School Committee Wednesday as the panel reorganized its leadership and also accepted the resignation of outgoing Superintendent Matthew Malone.