Gilbertsville-Mount Upton Central School Superintendent Annette Hammond announced will retire in July.
The school announced in social media posts that the 2024-2025 school year will be Hammond’s last with the school district.
Hammond, who submitted an official retirement letter to GMU’s Board of Education during its Jan. 15 meeting, will retire July 31 following the completion of her 10th year as superintendent and 16th overall at GMU, the release stated.
“Together, we have accomplished some wonderful things over the past 16 years, and I have been blessed to watch the students and staff of this district flourish,” said Hammond, who became GMU’s middle and high school principal in August 2009, Pre K-12 principal and CSE director in August 2013, and superintendent in August 2015.
“I am leaving the district with feelings of pride and accomplishment,” she said. “I remain committed to the district and will forever be grateful to our Board of Education for allowing me to be an integral part of GMU, where the quality of the journey counts.”
Hammond’s 34-year career in education started in 1991 as a middle/high school health educator for the Dover Union Free School District, which made her dean of students in 1998 and high school principal in 1999, the release stated. She left the Dover Plains area to become Sidney High School’s assistant principal in 2001, then served the Sidney Central School District as high school principal from 2004-2009 before heading to GMU.
Hammond studied Health Education at Manhattan College and Special Education/School Administration at SUNY New Paltz.
Details on a search for the next GMU superintendent are forthcoming, according to the release.