St. John The Evangelist School Advances In The National Blue Ribbon Application Process

St. John the Evangelist School has advanced to the next level of the National Blue Ribbon application process. Up to 50 private schools across the nation can be nominated for the National Blue Ribbon award each year.

“We are so excited to advance in the National Blue Ribbon Award process,” said Casey Buckstaff, principal of St. John the Evangelist School. “Realizing this level of excellence for St. John the Evangelist School is a goal teachers, students and leadership set our sights on and worked toward as we developed academic and extracurricular programming to support our strong Catholic identity year after year. We are blessed to work collaboratively and with high expectations among faculty and families for the benefit of our students, and being able to apply and move forward toward receiving this national award a second time is certainly a capstone achievement for our school family.”

The National Blue Ribbon Award is the highest honor bestowed upon schools by the United States Department of Education. Established in 1982 by Secretary of Education Terrell Bell, it recognizes public and private elementary, middle and high schools that fall in either or both of the two performance award categories: exemplary high performing or exemplary achievement gap closing. St. John the Evangelist School qualified as exemplary high performing based on its outstanding academic performance on national and state assessments.

The next step in the application process will involve a review of the selected National Blue Ribbon applications by the United States Department of Education. The recipients of the 2024 National Blue Ribbon award will be announced in September 2024.