SchoolE Nominations are Now Closed. Who are the Semi-Finalists?

Time has really flown - the SchoolE Awards nominations closed yesterday! What an exciting nomination round it’s been. This year, we received more than 7,500 nominations, which is almost 5 times more than last year! I can’t wait to see how many votes we get this year, just based on the turnout thus far. These last few weeks of nominations have been VERY busy ones, with hundreds of nominations coming in each day. We have received nominations from districts across all 50 states. It’s awesome how many people have been cheering their districts on.

Without further ado, here are the Top 15 school districts from each category that will move onto the judging round. Congrats to these school districts!

Large	Medium	Small
1. Brownsville ISD 2. Marion County School District 3. Newport News CPS 4. Fayette County 5. Prince George’s 6. San Bernardino City 7. Clear Creek ISD 8. Montgomery County 9. Chatham County 10.Fairfax County Public 11. Keller ISd 12. Polk County School District 13. Clark County 14. Elk Grove Unified 15. Kanawha County School District	1. Rockingham County 2. Independence 30 3. North Allegheny SD 4. Upper Darby SD 5. Township HSD 6. Blue Springs R-IV 7. Oxnard Union High 8. Walker County 9. Richland County 02 10. Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD 11. McAllen ISD 12. Lawrence Public Schools 13. Bradley Cty. School District 14. York County Public Schools 15. Natrona Cty. SD #1	1. Danville Independent 2. Zachary Community Schools 3. Groton School District 4. University Academy 5. New Milford 6. Lakeland District 7. Godfrey-Lee Public 8. St. James Schools 9. South Texas ISD 10. North Mason SD 11. Basehor-Linwood USD 12. Beggs Public Schools 13. Grain Valley R-V 14. Metcalfe County 15. Lexington City Schools

So what’s next?

Over the next two weeks, our Panel of Industry Experts will evaluate the district websites based on the Design, Content, and Overall presence. Our Panel of Industry Experts includes innovative leaders in areas such as educational technology, Higher Education web content, and graphic and web design.

Curious to see an example of what criteria the experts will be judging on? Check out a sample rubric here.

Judging will end on March 25 and based on the scores, only the top 7 districts in each category will move on to voting (21 districts total). We will be announcing the finalists on Monday, March 28th and after that, the voting will begin!

Voting will continue through May 5th and winners will be announced on May 6th.

Once again congrats to the 15 semi-finalists and good luck in the judging round! Make sure to keep checking out the SchoolE website for updates, district profiles, and more!