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18 | October 11, 2018 | The wilmette beacon school
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St. Francis Xavier nabs back-to-back National Blue Ribbon awards
Submitted by St. Francis
Xavier School
U.S. Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos announced
the names of 349
schools being honored as
2018 National Blue Ribbon
Schools on Oct. 1.
The 2018 winners include
300 public and 49 private
schools from across the
nation. St. Francis Xavier
in Wilmette was named
a Blue Ribbon School in
the category of Exemplary
High Performing Schools,
meaning that SFX ranks
among Illinois’s highest
performing schools
as measured by state assessments
or nationally
normed tests.
To select National Blue
Ribbon Schools, the Department
requests nominations
from the top education
official in every state,
the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the Department
of
Defense Education Activity,
and the Bureau of
Indian Education. The
Council for American Private
Education nominates
private schools. A total of
420 schools nationwide
may be nominated, with
allocations determined by
the numbers of K-12 students
and schools in each
jurisdiction. The coveted
National Blue Ribbon
Schools award affirms the
hard work of educators,
families and communities
in creating safe and welcoming
schools where students
master challenging
and engaging content.
Previous Blue Ribbon
School winners are permitted
to reapply following
a six-year cycle.
Because St. Francis
St. Francis Xavier also won the last time it was eligible
in 2011.
Xavier was recognized
as a 2012 Blue Ribbon
School, 2018 was the first
year it was eligible to reapply
for consideration.
This “back to back” win
speaks to the high bar set
in Wilmette across area
schools and how both public
and private schools in
our community meet and
Wilmette’s St. Franics Xavier School is a recipient
of the 2018 National Blue Ribbon for exemplary
performing schools. PHOTOs submitted
exceed rigorous national
standards.
St. Francis celebrated
this year’s win with its
students with “new and
blue” t-shirts that speak
to the excitement around
its “new” facility scheduled
to open this December,
in addition to the
“blue” award announcement
made today. This
new building houses a
gymnasium with stage,
cafeteria, kitchen, library
and media center, maker
space, art room, science
lab, language room, music
room, two specials
resource rooms, early
childhood learning center,
atrium and administrative
suite. The school’s 460
young learners and 60+
faculty and staff eagerly
await the opening of new
and expanded spaces to
better support the diversity
and depth of curriculum
already in place at St.
Francis.
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