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
Unlocking the Past: A Field Trip to the State Library and Archives of North Carolina (NC Dept. of Natural & Cultural Resources 4/10/2025)
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)
Press Releases
The Exploris School Announces Annual Recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) | 12/12/2025
