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Awards/Honors

Fort Couch students and staff continually achieve a vast array of awards and honors that reflect the tradition of excellence at Fort Couch. Awards and honors have been achieved in many areas including academics, the arts, athletics, and teaching excellence. Representative examples include:

  • published poetry in the International Poetry forum, 

  • 1st place in the Regional Math Counts Competition, 

  • 3rd place in the Future Cities Engineering Design Competition, 

  • 1st place in the Pittsburgh Public Theater's Shakespeare Scene Competition, 

  • MacDonalds educational grant for an outstanding interdisciplinary project,

  • Teacher in Excellence Award- 1st Runner Up, and 

  • a staff member was selected by the Pittsburgh Council of International Visitors to visit Ukraine as part of an exchange mission. 

 

Another source of school and community pride is being recognized statewide and nationally for our achievements.

  • In the years 1986-87, 1992-1993, 2001-2002, and 2012-2013, Fort Couch was acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School.

  • Boyce and Fort Couch middle schools were named Pennsylvania Don Eichhorn Schools to Watch 2023. This marks the sixth time that the two Upper St. Clair schools have earned this honor – an accomplishment reached by only two other schools in Pennsylvania. Boyce and Fort Couch first earned Schools to Watch honors in 2008. The schools were re-designated as Schools To Watch in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2023. 

Teachers, parents and staff are energized by these national and state recognitions and welcome the opportunity to share the commitment to the middle school movement with other school districts throughout the country.