Andrew Hoyt, an educator at Cumberland County Middle School, is the new assistant principal of the school, Cumberland County Public Schools (CUCPS) Superintendent Dr. Amy Griffin announced during the Feb. 13 Board of Supervisors meeting.

Melissa Reese, the former middle school assistant principal, was recently hired as the Cumberland County High School assistant principal after assistant principal Cora Tolliver was hired with the Virginia Department of Corrections Correctional Education Department.

“We would like to welcome Mr. Andrew Hoyt as our middle school assistant principal,” Griffin said during the meeting.

A news release from the division cited that before coming to Cumberland, Hoyt taught at Vicksburg High School in Mississippi and was named the Secondary Educator of the Year for the Vicksburg-Warren County School District.

He had also been a volunteer summer basketball coach while living in New York, the release cited.

Hoyt said in an email that he has worked at Cumberland Middle School for four years as a civics and economics teacher, as the co-chair of the middle school’s Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports (VTSS), summer school coordinator and administrative liaison.

“I received my bachelor’s degree in History and Adolescent Education from the State University of New York at Geneseo, a master’s degree in Literacy Education from the State University of New York at Cortland, and my Educational Leadership Endorsement from Longwood University,” Hoyt said. Hoyt said classes he taught at the middle and high school levels include civics, economics, law, psychology, sociology and world history.

Hoyt said he is excited to take on the position and said he will work with staff and students to maintain a strong academic and social environment at the division.

“I am honored to have been selected as Cumberland Middle School’s assistant principal, and I look forward to working with and supporting our school’s students and staff,” Hoyt said. “I’m focused on working toward achieving our school’s mission of developing respectful and responsible students to be purposeful in the real world.”