While standing in as acting principal since April last year, Mark Geraets was only officially inducted as The Scots School Albury's sixth principal on Friday after the pandemic delayed any formal ceremony.

And now his title is official, Mr Geraets is looking to the future.

"It has really been the journey through COVID I guess for me being acting principal last year and formally appointed in October last year," he told The Border Mail.

"It has been really difficult, especially being on the border.

"The continuing changing landscape and the kids have really got through it without having been blemished too harshly.

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"We really are on the crisp of some wonderful changes and growth just in terms of the capital projects we have three huge projects on the boil at the moment."

These include the ongoing agriculture project, a new $2 million senior study block, and a multi-million dollar primary school where the old principal's residence was on Young Street.

"We are really consolidating the movement we have in terms of identifying successful kids and it is really all around deep learning and ownership," Mr Geraets.

"Moving away from the old perception of education where you pour it in and you get your grades to own your own learning and teaching it moves so much further." New chair of the school board Emma Scholz said they are continuing to look forward to set Scots up for "what the world throws at us".

"We have a 150 year history, but we are facing forward and one of the lessons we had out of COVID was that with a strong community with all our eyes in the same direction there is really nothing we can't achieve," she said.

"So our goals are really around ensuring that we getting learning excellence for every student, that we have the environment to support that learning and that we have support around to facilitate that."

Dr Scholz has come from a varied work background including as a social researcher with a background in veterinary practice.

She also runs a farm between Culcairn and Henty with her husband and has children who are students at Scots.

"I am a parent of the school and what brought me was that I believe this region really needs an excellent day and boarding school so that families have that option," she said.

Mr Geraets said they have around 505 students across the 13 grades at the moment with plans to cap enrollments at 600.