$23M Plan To Merge
Unadilla Elementary,
High School Delayed
Better 'Right Than Fast,' Superintendent Says
By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
OTEGO – After a public hearing this week, the Unatego Central School District has delayed a decision from July 1 to December on a plan to convert the middle-high school into a single K-12 campus.
The plan would close the Unadilla Elementary School; the district's other elementary school, in Otego, was closed in 2017.
“We would rather do the plan right than fast,” Unatego Central School District Superintendent Dr. David Richards said in an interview Thursday.
At a public hearing Wednesday evening, Richards and the school board gave community members a “snapshot of where we are now” in developing a plan to renovate and reorganize the Unatego middle and high school building between Otego and Wells Bridge to accommodate 750 students. It was built originally to serve 450 students.
