CUBE Awards

The nomination process for the 2024 Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award and the CUBE Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence is closed. The 2024 winners are listed below. If you have questions about the 2025 nomination process, please email memberservices@nsba.org.

CUBE Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence

The CUBE Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence focuses on school board governance, highlighting school boards that are showing growth, innovation through policy, and an eagerness to be exemplars to other urban boards. School boards will be judged on a variety of measures across four core areas of urban school board governance:

School Board Performance
Academic Improvement
Educational Equity
Community Engagement

Presented annually by CUBE, this award is open to the leadership team of any current CUBE district in good standing.

Past Winners

2024: South Bend Community School Corporation (IN)
2023: Ferguson-Florissant School District (MO)
2022: Seattle Public Schools (WA)
2021: Richland One (SC) and Shelby County Schools (TN)
2020: Shelby County Schools (TN)
2019: Hillsborough County School District (FL)
2018: Jennings School District (MO), Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC), Fort Worth ISD (TX)
2017: Pittsburgh Public Schools (PA), Shelby County Schools (TN), Lancaster Independent School District (TX)