Recent Awards

Orange City Schools Wins NSPRA/Ohio Achievement Award

April 15, 2010

At the 2010 National School Public Relations Association Achievement Awards, the Orange City Schools website won a Mark of Excellence Award in the web category. The Achievement Awards "recognize exemplary school public relations plans, practices and projects." All entries are judged according to how well they met best practices established by a panel of expert judges.

Last year WRIS upgraded the Orange City Schools website to reflect the mission of the schools and better serve the community as an informative and useful tool. The site improvements included a new design interface, multimedia section and Content Manager for easy site updates. Orange also uses the WRIS Email Engine to distribute routine correspondence and expand their audience. View the full case study and visit the NSPRA website learn more about the NSPRA/Ohio Achievement Awards.

Beachwood School's Site Wins WebAward

November 2009

WRIS received a "Standard of Excellence" award in the School category for the site it created for Beachwood Schools. Located in an east side suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, The Beachwood City School District has approximately 1,600 students enrolled in four separate school buildings. In an effort to streamline communication, the newly designed website includes updateable news and announcements on the home page and a powerful school-wide calendar sortable by school campus and category. All of the site's content, including photographs, is updateable through a password-protected Content Manager managed entirely by school staff. The mission of the new Beachwood Schools website is to make it easy for prospective families to gather information about the school district, and provide valuable information to existing members of the school community including students, parents, faculty & staff and alumni. The Beachwood School's website scored well above the industry average for design, content, technology, copywriting and ease of use. Judges from the WebAward competition said, "This site is a great first step toward providing better school websites." Another judge commented that the site was "well laid out and easy to navigate."