Announcing the SchoolE Awards Finalists // Voting is OPEN!

The time has come to announce the 2011 SchoolE Awards finalists! After two weeks of judging, the 7 finalists from each category are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Large 1. Brownsville ISD 2. Clark County School District 3. Clear Creek ISD 4. Keller ISD 5. Newport News CPS 6. Polk County 7. San Bernadino City Unified

Medium 1. Independence 30 2. Natrona County School District #1 3. Oxnard Union High 4. Richland County School District 02 5. Rockingham County Schools 6. Upper Darby SD 7. York County Public Schools

Small 1. Basehor-Linwood 2. Godfrey-Lee Public Schools 3. Lexington City Schools 4. North Mason School District 403 5. St. James School 6. University Academy 7. Zachary Community School District

Congratulations to all district finalists!

There were so many great district sites this year I'm not sure how the judges did it! The judges have spent the past two weeks evaluating the top 15 districts in each category on 3 different areas: Design, Content, and Overall. Our panel of judges were able to rate these areas on multiple subcategories. Here is an example of a rubric.

Also, a big congratulations and thanks to all the schools who were nominated or made it to the semi-finalist round! Your communities definitely showed their passion for your district’s websites. Even though you didn’t make it through to the final round this year, remember there is always next year!

We’d love to give feedback to any districts who didn’t make it as finalists to help you improve your district's web presence. Please let us know if this is something you are interested in.

We’d like to encourage you to stay involved with SchoolE and vote for whichever school district you believe has the best site! You can view all the finalists profile pages (with links to their websites) on the SchoolE Awards website (http://schoole.allofe.com).

Voting is now OPEN! Make sure to spread the word to your community. This is the final round. Voting will end on May 5th, so there’s just a little over a month to vote your school to the top!

You can vote for the BEST school district website here.

GOOD LUCK!