WHEELING – Steenrod Elementary School has been selected as a West Virginia Blue Ribbon School for 2025.

School officials will travel to Charleston on Nov. 12 to be recognized during the regular meeting of the West Virginia Board of Education. A school from Wood County also will be recognized, according to Michelle Dietrich, principal at Steenrod Elementary.

She explained Steenrod had been on track for national Blue Ribbon recognition, but that program is not happening in 2025 and has been cancelled by the Trump Administration.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in the past has honored public and private K-12 schools that are either academically superior in their state or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement.

Steenrod Elementary previously won the award in 2003.

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