CAPE Announces 2025 Blue Ribbon Schools

CAPE has announced the list of 2025 Blue Ribbon Schools.

Department of Education Ends National Blue Ribbon Schools Program

The Department of Education has discontinued the National Blue Ribbon Schools program. The list of school nominated by CAPE in 2025 is below.

2023 National Blue Ribbon Schools

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona named forty private schools across the country as National Blue Ribbon Schools.

24 Private Schools Named National Blue Ribbon Schools

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today recognized 24 exemplary private schools among the 297 schools honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022. Private schools are nominated by the Council for American Private Education (CAPE) as being among their state’s highest performing schools as measured by state assessments or national normed tests. A list of the private National Blue Ribbon Schools is available on CAPE's web site.

2022 National Blue Ribbon School Winners Announced

The National Blue Ribbon School Program has honored and recognized great American public and private elementary, middle, and high schools since 1982. The Blue Ribbon distinction has become a symbol of quality and excellence recognized by everyone from parents to policy-makers in thousands of communities. Here is the full list of the private schools who have been awarded this distinction in 2022.

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