Administrative Team Restructures

Schoharie CSD has restructured its administrative team for the 2024-25 school year.  With the departure of Dr. Kevin Calacone, who was appointed in April as the head of La Salle Institute effective July 1, David Russell has assumed the role of principal at the Jr./Sr. High School after a board appointment in June. The Schoharie …

District Awarded No-Cost School Meals for the next Four Years

Beginning this coming school year and continuing for the next four years, Schoharie CSD will be participating in the Community Eligibility Provision program, which provides no-cost meals to all students. CEP is a federal provision that allows high-poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students. This option increases school meal participation by …

Superintendent’s Message: Bus Run/Start Time Changes for Next Year

Good morning, As we approach the end of the school year, I want to inform you of an important change for next year. Starting in September 2024, Schoharie CSD will be going back to one combined bus run for grades pre-K through 12. The school day for all students will start at 8 a.m. and …

The 6th grade choir returned to the Kingsway Village senior living complex to perform their spring concert pieces and to chat with some of the same residents that they interacted with in December. Students performed four choral works and did a shadow puppet performance to accompany the poem “In Flanders Fields”, the text to a song they …

Schoharie Student Finishes Welding Program by Creating a Firepit

A Schoharie senior was among the students at Capital Region BOCES who fabricated backyard recreational equipment this year as part of their senior capstone projects in the Welding and Metal Fabrication program. Students in Don Mattoon’s class this spring took part in a project-based learning initiative during which they are designing and fabricating an item. …

District voters pass school budget; elect new board members

Schoharie Central School District residents approved a $27.6 million budget for the 2024-25 school year on Tuesday by a vote of a 244 to 128.  The fiscal plan has an overall increase of 2.99 percent – or $804,059 – from the current year. A proposition to purchase school buses was passed by a vote of …