Mr. Squier is in his twelth year at C-A and 18th as a superintendent, previously serving Oxford Central Schools for six years. He has served as a principal, director of athletics, teacher, coach and even worked as a summer cleaner in his schools while growing up.
A native of Apalachin, NY he is a graduate of Owego Free Academy, SUNY Binghamton, Elmira College and SUNY Cortland. While in high school he was a 3-sport athlete and class president. Three HS teammates are currently superintendents at other NY school districts. He worked his way through college at Grand Union and Wegmans and coaching football and basketball at OFA.
While a superintendent he has presented regionally, statewide and nationally on topics that have a foundation in professional learning communities and innovative schools. C-A was ranked 1st in the nation in 2018 by the National School Boards Association for its digital conversion that includes providing mobile devices for every student since 2015, a robust digital badge program as well as shifting most back office storage functions to the cloud. For the last ten years, Coxsackie-Athens’ graduation rate is 16% higher than the previous eight years. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders.
He credits a school board that puts student performance first as well as the perseverance of school leaders, both administrative and teachers for the success students are achieving. He has no silver bullet, but knows the effectiveness of every teacher in every classroom will ultimately determine whether a child will be successful.
Randy and his wife Maureen are proud parents of three C-A graudates. James, who went on to graduate from SUNY ESF where he was a four year member of the Mighty Oaks basketball team; Maggie who is in the honors college at the University of Buffalo and Maeve who is attending The Univesity of Rhode Island.