Discovery School Named National Beta School of Merit

Murfreesboro, TN – Discovery School has been named a 2024–2025 National Beta School of Merit, an award that recognizes schools demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence and leadership development. The education facility is under the City of Murfreesboro School System. 

Students from Discovery School also competed at the National Beta Convention this summer, an event that brings together students who qualify at state-level competitions and leadership summits to compete for national titles.

National winners from Discovery School included:

• 2nd Place, Banner-2D Design

  

  • Junior Division: Nora Bahloul, Evelyn Stricklin, Caitlin McCauley, Eli Sanders, Addy Biles

  • Elementary Division: Alaina Schrader, Haya Sultan, Jacob Stephenson, Anna Gilbert, Imran Mohamad, George Grundner, Julianna Terry, Aleene Faour, Areeb Amao, Nolan Hallett, Tala Khanfar, Jacob Rudy

• 1st Place, Poetry – Margaret Stewart

• 8th Place, Drawing – George Grundner

• 9th Place, Book Battle – Margaret Stewart, Alaina Schrader, Hope Clementi, Atticus Todd

Other students who participated at the national level included Jerome Gray-Hildenbrand (4th Grade Science) and Alaina Schrader (4th Grade ELA). Club sponsors for the Beta program were Beth Warren, Jennifer Hickson, and Ivey Bahloul.

National Beta is the largest independent, nonprofit, educational youth organization in the United States, emphasizing academic achievement, character, leadership, and service.

In addition to Beta Club, Discovery School students participate in a range of extracurricular activities, including Robotics, Scouts, Science Olympiad, Amazing Shake, and BizTown.

Discovery School is an academic magnet program serving kindergarten through sixth grade. The school has been redesignated as a Tennessee STEAM school by the Tennessee Department of Education and has previously been recognized as both a Reward School and a Level 5 school.