Pocahontas Middle School - Awards and Accolades

Awards and Accolades

• Henrico County Public Schools was named one of the "Best Communities for Music Education in America," the only school division in the nation to earn this designation 12 years in a row.
• Newsweek recognized Deep Run, Freeman, Godwin and Henrico high schools as four of America’s Best High Schools in 2010.
• Deep Run High School's robotics team, known as Blue Cheese, took home the state title at the FIRST Tech Challenge competition held at the University of Virginia in 2009.
• Twelve Henrico Schools have received the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award. Shady Grove Elementary School was selected in fall of 2007.
• Henrico schools received eight National Association of Counties (NACo) awards for implementing groundbreaking programs in 2009.
• Ten schools earned the 2011 Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence and 21 schools earned the 2011 Board of Education’s VIP awards.
• Godwin and Deep Run High Schools schools won a silver medal ranking by U.S. News & World Report's "Best High Schools in America" for 2009.
• Byrd Middle School was selected as Virginia Educational Media Association (VEMA) Library of the Year for 2010.
• Henrico County Public Schools named National School Library Program of the Year 2011.(AASL)
• The culinary arts program at Hermitage Technical Center obtained certification by the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Accrediting Commission’s Secondary Certification Committee.
• Glen Allen High School earned the gold and Holman Middle School earned the silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification as verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.
• HCPS was named the 2011 Virginia Healthy Business of the Year by Prevention Connections.
• Virginia Commonwealth University—Autism Center for Excellence selected HCPS to serve as an exemplary site in the delivery of educational services to students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Crestview Elementary was selected as the Children’s Engineering Program of the year for 2011 by the Virginia Technology Education and Engineering Association.
• Fairfield Middle School received the Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) designation from the American School Counselor Association.
• HCPS School Nutrition Services was given a “District of Excellence” distinction by the School Nutrition Association during the 2010-11 school year.