Normal Park Awarded STEM Designation - 2020




NP recognized as 2018 TN Level 5 reward school

Reward status is the top distinction a school can earn in Tennessee. Reward schools are improving overall student academic achievement and student growth for the categories of all students and students groups.

Magnet School of Excellence- 2009, 2011, 2012

Magnet School of Excellence Awards are given to only a select group of magnet schools that have demonstrated the highest level of excellence in all facets of the merit award application.

Edutopia's Schools that Work

https://www.edutopia.org/school/normal-park-museum-magnet-school

Education Consumers Foundation's Value-Added Achievement Award - 2012, 2013, 2014

The Education Consumers Foundation launched the Value-­Added Achievement Awards in Tennessee in 2006. This annual awards initiative was created to recognize the most effective principals and schools in the state, while at the same time building awareness and understanding of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System. These are the leaders whose schools have excelled at raising the academic performance of their students.

Normal Park Museum Magnet Celebrates Straight A's In TCAP Student Achievement And Value Added

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Normal Park received straight A's in both student achievement and value added in every subject area (math, science, language arts/reading and social studies). Normal Park Museum Magnet is the only school in Hamilton County to receive straight A's on the state report card in both student achievement and value added.

Normal Park is honored to have been recognized on the local and national level for its innovative curriculum and success in building an exemplary magnet school program.

• Ronald P. Simpson Award, Magnet Schools of America (2005) "America's Number One Magnet School"

• Magnet School of Excellence Award, Magnet Schools of America (2005-2012)

• Magnet Schools of America's National Principal of the Year - Jill Levine (2012)

• 1st Place in East Tennessee for Highest Value Added Scores, Educational Resource Foundation (2012)

• Featured on the Edutopia website, a George Lucas Educational Foundation, as a "School that works" (2014) http://www.edutopia.org/schools-that-work

• National Council of PTA's Hearst Award for outstanding parent involvement (2009)

• J.F. Kennedy School of Distinction in Arts Education (2008)

• Featured in Creating and Sustaining Successful Magnet School Programs, U.S. Department of Education (2008)

• Creative Ticket Award, Tennessee Arts Commission (2006)

• Featured on the Doing What Works website, United States Department of Education.

• Featured in Mind in the Making, Ellen Galinski.

• Featured in Why Are School Buses Always Yellow, John Barell

• A national model for visitors across the country: Massachusetts, New York, California, Maryland, Connecticut, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Tennessee and Canada