Students at the Fourteenth Street School in Bangor hosted U.S. Sen. Susan Collins Friday during a special ceremony recognizing the school’s recent designation as a National Blue Ribbon School.
Collins presented the school and students with a copy of her Congressional Record Statement honoring the school’s ongoing academic excellence. She said Fourteenth Street, one of three Maine schools to receive the award, was among 342 schools nationally to achieve Blue Ribbon recognition.
“That is fewer than one percent of our schools nationwide,” she said. “So this is a really big deal for the city of Bangor, and it speaks so well to the efforts of the teachers, the students, the parents, the administrators, the staff, everybody coming together to ensure that these children have the very best education.”
Blue Ribbon schools are recognized for overall academic excellence or for making notable improvements in closing the achievement gap.