Students must fulfill certain criteria to qualify for these awards.

President’s Award for Educational Excellence (given in Grade 5)

This award was established to encourage students to achieve high academic standards by recognizing and rewarding them for educational excellence. Students must achieve a 3.5 grade average in grades 4 and 5, and have achieved in the 85th percentile or higher in math and reading on their STAR tests.

President’s Award for Educational Improvement (given in Grade 5)

The purpose of this award is to recognize students who show outstanding educational growth, improvement, commitment, or intellectual development in their academic subjects, but do not meet the criteria for the President’s Award for Educational Excellence. It is meant to encourage and reward students who work hard and give their best effort in school, in many cases in the face of special obstacles to learning.

Periodically, a different class is featured and rewarded for being well behaved and cooperative. The Featured Class of the Week is announced at the weekly Flag assemblies.

The featured Class of the Week is rewarded with the following:

• Early entrance to the cafeteria and a special designated eating area for each lunch.
• Food certificates from sponsoring merchants
• Special seating at Flag Assemby

Any student, who is observed doing something “nice” for another person, may be randomly rewarded by the adult who saw the behavior. S/he is given a “Caught Being Good” slip. The slip is then put in a box in the Office. The student is then eligible for a “Lunch with the Principal” drawing.

There are also High 5 Hound slips. With five slips, students can also enter the drawing.

This program was developed to acknowledge and award children throughout the week for good behavior and helpfulness to others on the playground. At the weekly morning flag assemblies, the principal will randomly select 4 of the “Caught Being Good” students who will be his guests at Lunch With The Principal on Thursdays. They go to Islands Restaurant and Baskin-Robbins.