WHEELING — The National Blue Ribbon School program was discontinued earlier this year, but Steenrod Elementary School in Ohio County nevertheless 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 Schools, 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 announcement of the program’s end came in September after Dietrich and her staff had already filed the paperwork for Blue Ribbon recognition.

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