McKinney High School (Texas) and Christ Presbyterian Academy (Tennessee) have earned Staff Excellence Blue and Gold Awards for their overall performance in the 2020 Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contest.

The Blue and Gold Awards note the best high school journalism offers. Winners of this prestigious award have distinguished themselves in visuals and/or writing categories in each year’s Yearbook Excellence Contest. The following schools earned 2020 Blue and Gold Awards based on their staffs’ overall performance in the Yearbook Excellence Contest. The Staff Excellence Blue and Gold Award represents the best overall. Congratulations to this year’s Blue and Gold award winning yearbooks.

There were a total of eighteen categories per class. Read about each of the 18 categories here.

Each award is broken down by class.

Below the Blue and Gold winners is a list of the Sweepstakes (first place) and National winners (second and third place) for each of our 18 categories. Honorable Mentions are below that. Quill and Scroll judges award 10 percent of all entries with a Sweepstakes, National or Honorable Mention award.

Class A (enrollment of 750 or more students)

Staff Excellence

• McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas

Comprehensive Visuals

• Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
• Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
• McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas

Comprehensive Writing

• McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas
• Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas
• Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Class B (enrollment of fewer than 750 students)

Staff Excellence

• Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee

Comprehensive Visuals

• Richland R-1 School, Essex, Missouri

Comprehensive Writing

• Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee