Achievements/Recognitions

• High-Performing School Citation by the National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA), 2002.
• Hughston received an "Exemplary" rating from the Texas Education Agency based on its TAAS performance and the AEIS indicators each year from 1995 through 2003! 
• Hughston was named a Texas Blue Ribbon School during November of 1996, and in 1995, Hughston was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Safe, Disciplined, Drug-Free School. Our school was honored in Washington D.C.  where Mrs. Collins was a guest of President Clinton during a special Rose Garden ceremony.
• For the past four years (1996-2000) Hughston has been named an Exemplary Writing School by Plano I.S.D. for the past 5 years (1996-2002).
  Other awards include: Governor's Award for Excellence (1990), Texas Successful Schools Award (1991, 1992, 1993), Exemplary Rating from AEIS indicators (1995 - 1999), 1998 Walmart Outstanding School. 

• Hughston Destination Imagination teams represented PISD at the State competition (1997-2003) and the World Odyssey of the Mind (OM) competition in 1995. Three of the four teams representing Plano elementary schools at the State OM Competition in the spring of 1994 were from Hughston. In 1993, a Hughston team placed second in the Odyssey of the Mind World Competition.
• Four students representing Hughston have won highest honors in the 1999 & 2003 WordMasters Challenge -- a national language arts competition entered by more than 240,000 students annually. The challenge is an exercise in critical thinking, which first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships.
• Other student awards include:

Kaidy Math Contest (several students earned top honors in 95, 97, 98, & 99); One student received top honors in 2001.
Continental Math League Problem Solving Competition First place winner for the Region in 2001 (Regional and National winners in 92, 93, 94, 95, & 96)
Art and literary contributions being published in the state Rising Star magazine ( 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,00,01,02)
District Science Fair winners (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 00, 01, 02, 03)
Regional Grand Prize Science Fair winner in 1998
Invent Event district winners (94, 96, 97, 98, & 99) Bright Ideas Invention winners have received district recognition for the past several years and a winner from 1998 was featured on the Tonight Show.
Mockingbird Poetry Winners (1994-2003)
State Geography Poster Contest winner (98)
District Fire Poster Contest (98). 

• Elementary Counselor of the Year for the state of Texas in 1995-96 (Brenda Davis)
• Plano's Beginning Teacher of the Year (Wendy Burrer-1993)
• H. Ross Perot Excellence in Teaching Awards (Sally Rundell - 2000, Molly Chapman-1991, Paula Cook-1992, Jeanne Shilstone-1994, Jamie Baer-1996)
• Optical Society's Outstanding Science Teaching Awards for Texas (Molly Chapman-1994)
• KERA Master Teaching award in science, math, and technology (Molly Klinger-1994 & 95)
• WalMart teacher of the year (Judy Hicks - 1998)
• Region X Advocate of the Year by the Texas Association for Gifted and Talented (Luanne Collins - 2000)
• Who's Who Among American Teachers (Lisa Wellborn - 2002)

Parent Awards

The Hughston Parent Teacher Organization enthusiastically supports the entire school community by volunteering to assist in various roles during the instructional day as well as by raising additional funds to support special programs and to purchase additional materials.  In 1998, two parent volunteers, D. Fusselman & S. Smith,  were among seven Heroes in Education recognized and honored by the State Board of Education for their work with children.