The National Blue Ribbon award is an award that recognizes public, and private schools around the country for high excellence in academics. Every year the U.S department of Education looks for high achieving schools in the country. The Blue Ribbon award is an award that shows the hard work of teachers, staff and students. This year, our school is a proud recipient of this award! Furthermore, when asking freshman students how they felt about the Blue Ribbon award they felt happy and proud that they were in a school of such high excellence. Janet Chavarria said “ I feel part of a part of a community. She looked at me smiling as she was happy to be here. Dr. Woods- Weeks said as stated by Aristotle “ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit”. When Dr. Woods-Weeks said this she smiled and looked at me. She said to me, “If we keep repeating our habits we will keep doing incredible things”. Congratulations to everyone on this high honor.