Awards and Accolades
2020, 2021, & 2022: WRAL Viewer's Choice Awards Finalist
2023 WRAL Viewer's Choice Award Winner
2014 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School
In the News
Gov. Cooper announces $1 million for more public school field trips in NC (WRAL 11/13/2024)
Astronaut Christina Koch visits North Carolina to speak with public school students (EdNC 4/26/24)
Three ways education professionals use AI to support learning differences (EdNC 3/18/24)
Federal Officials Spotlight N.C. Schools During “Green Strides” Tour (NCDPI 10/19/2021)
It’s Time to Dispel Charter School Myths and Celebrate All Good Schools (Educationpost 1/30/2020)
Local middle school students spread awareness of the dangers of single-use
plastic bags (Technician 1/22/2020)
MAT Students Participate in Design for Change Cohort (Watson Chronicle 5/04/2019)
George Taylor Lynching Centennial article – Wake Forest Weekly, 7/19/2018)
Students ask Wake to name school after black family who fought for integration
(News & Observer, 4/16/2017)
The Exploris School is one seven schools in Raleigh and northern Wake to receive an A+ grade
(News & Observer, 9/1/2016)
The Exploris School: Engaging minds with project-based learning
(EducationNC, 9/22/2015)
Success Through Community-led Learning
(NCSU Philanthropy Journal, 05/04/2015)
Exploris students learn on the move with The Walking Classroom
(News & Observer, 04/22/15)
The City and Transportation as Classroom: Exploris School
(Advocates for Health in Action, 03/17/2015)
How Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Durham schools stacked up in state report cards
(Daily Tar Heel, 02/15/15)
Raleigh charter school snags top NC honors for STEM education
(WRAL, 11/21/14)
An Education of the Heart: The Glenwood Towers Senior Center Prom
(The New York Times – Parenting Blog, 06/27/14)
Raleigh middle school students safe in Osaka after flight diverted
(News & Observer, 3/11/11)
When in the Course of 7th Grade…
(News & Observer, 3/1/2011)
Youth Award Winner – Exploris
(RaleighNC.gov, 1/4/2011)
Former VP Gore hosts TWC’s Global Online Town Hall
(Naturalsciences.org, 11/17/2010)
Exploris class goads Wolfpack over poor diet
(News & Observer, 11/11/2010)
Exploris Middle Schoolers Run For Water in Haiti
(Blueplanetnetwork.org, 6/9/2010)
Exploris pupils lobby for a park
(News & Observer, 4/7/2010)
Runners’ goal is clean water
(News & Observer, 10/8/2008)
Eighth-graders dig into wetlands
(News & Observer, 5/19/2008)
Exploris Middle School Walnut Creek Field Guide Project
(City of Raleigh Website, 5/7/2008)
Walnut Creek: A Guide to Exploring Urban Wetlands
(LearnNC.org, 2008)
The Walnut Creek Oral History Project
(Plants and Soils of Walnut Wetlands Website, 2006)
Kids plan for future
(News & Observer, 1/30/2005)
Exchange programs between Shinonome Junior High School and Exploris Middle School
(Hiroshima University Global Partnership School Center, 2005)
