SCS Principal Betsy Wright Goes from Interim to Permanent

By David Avitabile

SCHOHARIE - Schoharie Central School removed the interim tag on elementary school Principal Betsy Wright last week.

Ms. Wright was named interim elementary school principal in January, jumping from the junior-senior High School, where she was serving as the assistant principal. Mrs. Wright started in that role for the 2024-25 school year after spending the second half of the 2023--24 school year as the assistant principal in the Elementary.

Last Wednesday, school board members gave Ms. Wright a four-year probationary position as elementary school principal retroactive to January 13, through January 12, 2029. The appointment is at her current salary per the Schoharie Administrators Association contract.

Prior to coming to Schoharie, Mrs. Wright was most recently the assistant principal at Mont Pleasant Middle School in the Schenectady City School District and has worked as a reading teacher, classroom teacher and instructional coach.

Former SCS Elementary Principal Andrea Polikoski stepped down from her position December to assume an elementary principal role at Scotia-Glenville CSD. At their November meeting, school board members accepted the resignation of Ms. Polikoski.

After 10 years as principal at SCS, Ms. Polikoski accepted the position as the principal of Glen-Worden Elementary School in the Scotia-Glenville Central School District and left Schoharie on January 2.