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2008 National Blue Ribbon School

2008,2010,2011,2012,2015,2016 Texas Honor Roll School

2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 TEA Exemplary Middle School

2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018 Texas STAAR Distinctions

Top 25% Closing the Performance Gap

Top 25% Postsecondary Readiness

2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013/2014/2015/2016/2017 No Place for Hate Campus

2013 and 2014 HISD Name that Book District Winners, 2016 Finalists.

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018: 100% Passing in AP Spanish Exams

100% of students taking the state Algebra End of Course exam passed and 85% passed at the highest level

2015 National Spanish Exam: 71 students placed and 33 students received Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medals

2015 Houston area language competition: 1^st place in Spanish, 1^st place in French, Honorable Mention in French, Honorable Mention in German.  Pin Oak was the only middle school to attend.  2016 Houston Language competition: 1st place in French, German, and Spanish.

Language Competition: 3 Spanish, 3 French, 1 German students advance to finals and all bring home 1^st Place Awards. 

2015 Italian Consulate Poster Competition: four students won 1^st place, seven won 2^nd place.

2016: 14^th Annual Greater Houston Area Chinese Speech Contest – 2^nd place, 3^rd place and honorable mention

International travel to Ecuador, France, Berlin, and China

2007 - 2016 UIL Academic and Speech District Champions

2016 HISD Holiday Card Contest Finalist

2009-2015 Theatre Awards: 2^nd place in UIL One Act Play District Contest, 2013: 3^rd place in UIL One Act Play District Contest

UIL One Act Play: advanced from Zone to District, making Pin Oak one of the only THREE HISD schools to advance to the District Contest eight years in a row.

2017: Theatre- One Act Play alternate

A total of 10 Pin Oak students placed in the prestigious Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Drawing and Illustration

Six Pin Oak students placed in the 2016 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s School Art contest

2015: 1st place watercolor entry and 1^st place mixed media entry at the Renaissance festival

2016 Photography: 2^nd place in the American Rose Society’s Middle/High School Rose Photo Contest, and another student had 2 photos published In My Table magazine

2018 Advanced Photography: Students’ work is selected for permanent display at Texas Children’s Hospital

2004-2014 HISD Dance Super Sweepstakes Winners

2014 Marching Auxiliaries Competition Sweepstakes and Best in Class Winners

2014 American Dance Drill Team Competition Sweepstakes, Gussie Nell Davis Award, Academic Award, Jazz Team Award, Hip Hop Team Award, and Best in Class

2010-2017 Advanced Choir Performs at Epcot in Florida and USS Intrepid in New York

2014-2016: Pin Oak Orchestra students chosen for TMEA Region Orchestra

2010-2016: Advanced Orchestra received Sweepstakes Award at UIL Concert and Sight Reading

2014-2016: Orchestra students at all levels received Superior ratings and medals at UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest

2015-2017 Band: 14 members selected as HISD All-City band members, 3 members selected as TMEA All-Region, 24  medals awarded to band students for first division solo performances at the POMS solo contest, 13 medals and 8 award certificates were awarded to Beginner Band students for first division solo performances at the POMS solo contest, The Varsity Wind Ensemble received unanimous first division “superior” ratings in both Concert and Sight-Reading at the Region 23 UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Contest, for the first time in school history, The Beginner Band received a first division “superior” rating at the Gator Music Festival in Dickinson.

2017 Swimming: 8^th grade girls and 7^th grade girls won Districts in Zone 2.

2015 Softball: District Champions

2015 and 2016 7^th grade Girls basketball: Zone Champions

2014 Zone Champions in Boys Basketball, Baseball, Swimming

2014 2^nd place in Zone, Football

2015 Zone Champions and District runner-up, Baseball

2014 Kinkaid Gold Bracket Champions 7^th grade Boys basketball

2014 and 2015 7^th and 8^th grade Girls Volleyball Zone champions

2017: 7^th grade girls zone champions in track and field

2014 Zone Champions in 8^th Grade Boys/Girls Cross Country, 2015 Third place at the District meet in 8^th grade girls cross country

2017-2018: Cross Country – 8^th grade girls -District Champions

8th Grade Girls Track-2nd place overall 2015 District Meet with gold medals in the 100M, 400M, 800M, 1600M, 300M Hurdles, 4x200M Relay, 4x400M Relay, and Long Jump

All three Pin Oak Odyssey of the Mind teams advanced to World finals in 2014 and travelled to Ames, Iowa, with one of the teams bringing home 5^th Place 

2016: Chess students 1st place overall in The Roger’s Tournament with 10 kids out of 14 receiving trophies, placed in The Village School Tournament 2nd place overall with 7 kids out of 12 winning trophies.

2014 First Place American Cheer Power in Galveston, Texas, 2014 Cheer Spring National Champions

2017: Cheerleaders- 2^nd place Texas Middle School Cheer Competition Winners

2018: Cheerleaders – NCA Spirit Award Winners