The Crown Awards are the highest recognition given by the CSPA to a student print or digital medium for overall excellence. On March 15, 2024, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the scholastic 2024 Silver and Gold Crown winners.
Gold High School Hybrid General Magazine
C Magazine / cmagazine.org, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA;
Grant Magazine / grantmagazine.com, Grant High School, Portland, OR;
On the Record / ontherecordmag.com, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, KY;
Verde Magazine / verdemagazine.com, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA;
Viking Sports Magazine / vikingsportsmag.com, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA.
Gold High School General Magazine
Geneva Quarterly, Geneva School of Boerne, Boerne, TX;
Spark, Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, OH;
The Scientific Marksman, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX.
Gold High School Hybrid Literary Magazine
Dreamcatcher / westwooddreamcatcher.com, Westwood High School, Austin, TX;
iliad Literary-Art Magazine / iliadlitmag.com, Clarke Central High School, Athens, GA;
Scroll + Scrolling / holtonscrolling2023.myportfolio.com, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD;
Seeds in the Black Earth / dsoaseeds.com, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL.
Gold High School Print Literary Magazine
Babel, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT;
Blue Review, Charlotte Latin School, Charlotte, NC;
Blue Review, Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA;
Iris: Art + Lit, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, Saint Paul, MN;
Packer Current Items, The Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY;
Repentino, The American School Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico;
Solstice Art and Literary Magazine, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, IL;
The Talon, Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, VA;
The Tartan, McLean High School, McLean, VA;
Vibrato, The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX.
Gold Middle School Print Literary Magazine
Pen & Paper, The Unquowa School, Fairfield, CT.
Gold High School Digital News
Eagle Nation Online / eaglenationonline.com, Prosper High School, Prosper, TX;
HiLite / hilite.org, Carmel High School, Carmel, IN;
Mountain Echo / aahsmountainecho.com, Altoona Area High School, Altoona, PA;
Southwest Shadow / southwestshadow.com, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, NV;
The Gator / bmgator.org, Brimmer and May School, Newton, MA;
The La Salle Falconer / lasallefalconer.com, La Salle Catholic College Preparatory, Milwaukie, OR;
The Oracle / archeroracle.org, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA;
The Rider Online / therideronline.com, Legacy High School, Mansfield, TX;
Wayland Student Press Network / waylandstudentpress.com, Wayland High School, Wayland, MA;
Wingspan / libertywingspan.com, Liberty High School, Frisco, TX.
Gold High School Hybrid New
Berkeley High Jacket / berkeleyhighjacket.com, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA;
Eagle Eye News / eagleeye.news, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, FL;
El Estoque / elestoque.org, Monta Vista High School, Palo Alto, CA;
Kingwood Park Times / kptimes.com, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, TX;
North Star / fhntoday.com, Francis Howell North High School, Saint Charles, MO;
Odyssey / odysseynewsmagazine.net, Clarke Central High School, Athens, GA;
The Boiling Point / shalhevetboilingpoint.com, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, CA;
The Campanile / thecampanile.org, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA;
The Harbinger / arhsharbinger.com, Algonquin Regional High School, Northborough, MA;
The Harbinger / smeharbinger.net, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, KS;
The Highlander / thehighlandernews.com, McLean High School, McLean, VA;
The Lion's Tale / lionstale.org, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville, MD;
The Messenger / marquettemessenger.com, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, MO;
The Muse / themuseatdreyfoos.com, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL;
The Review / sjsreview.com, St. John's School, Houston, TX;
The Rubicon / rubiconline.com, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, Saint Paul, MN;
The Shield / macshieldonline.com, McCallum High School, Austin, TX;
The Southerner / thesoutherneronline.com, Midtown High School, Atlanta, GA;
The Standard / standard.asl.org, The American School in London, London, United Kingdom;
Tiger Times / tigertimesonline.com, Texas High School, Texarkana, TX;
U-High Midway / uhighmidway.com, University of Chicago Laboratory High School, Chicago, IL.
Gold High School Print News
Eagle Edition, Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, TX;
High Tide, Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA;
The Edge, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, TX;
The Nueva Current, The Nueva School, San Mateo, CA;
Winged Post, The Harker School, San Jose, CA.
Gold Middle School Print News
The Scroll, The American School in London, London, United Kingdom.
Gold High School Yearbook
Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, KS;
Dragon, Round Rock High School, Round Rock, TX;
Fusion, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, FL;
Heritage, Shawnee Mission South High School, Overland Park, KS;
Ledoian, Aledo High School, Aledo, TX;
Pantera, Mead High School, Spokane, WA;
Techniques, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA;
Tesserae, Corning-Painted Post High School, Corning, NY;
The Hawk, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, TX;
The Legend, El Dorado High School, El Paso, TX;
The Panther Den, Liberty Hill High School, Liberty Hill, TX;
The Torch, Athens Drive Magnet High School, Raleigh, NC;
Traditions, Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA;
Wingspan, James Enochs High School, Modesto, CA.
Gold Middle School Yearbook
Ingenium, Greenfield Junior High School, Gilbert, AZ;
Lair, Drake Middle School, Arvada, CO;
Oro, Cactus Canyon Junior High School, Apache Junction, AZ;
The BluePrint, Bill & Cindy Haskett Junior High School, Katy, TX;
The Scrapbook, Westfield Middle School, Westfield, IN.
Silver High School Hybrid General Magazine
Anthro Magazine / anthromagazine.org, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA;
Teknos / teknos.org, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA;
The Statesman / lhsstatesman.com, Lincoln High School, Sioux Falls, SD;
Silver High School Print General Magazine
The Tam News, Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, CA.
Silver High School Digital Literary Magazine
The Pulse / thepulsejchs.com, Johns Creek High School, Johns Creek, GA.
Silver High School Print Literary Magazine
Artifex, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, FL;
Blutopia, Gaston Day School, Gastonia, NC;
Briars & Ivy, Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor, NY;
Calliope, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ;
Changing Perspectives, Delaware Valley Regional High School, Frenchtown, NJ;
Daedalus, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT;
Delphi, Salem High School, Salem, VA;
Echoes, Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, NJ;
Elysium, Coral Reef Senior High School, Miami, FL;
Esse, Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Dallas, TX;
Fragments, Long Beach High School, Lido Beach, NY;
Gallimaufry, Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI;
H.E.L.M., The Harker School, San Jose, CA;
Illumine, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, TN;
Ingenium, McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, Mobile, AL;
Menagerie, Lyons Township High School, La Grange, IL;
Parallax, Ramaz Upper School, New York, NY;
Perspectives, Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich, CT;
Phantasm, St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, IL;
Roars & Whispers, Providence Senior High School, Charlotte, NC;
The Marque, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX;
The Orient Express, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT;
Silver High School Digital News
CHS Today / chstoday.net, Conifer High School, Conifer, CO;
Falcon Press News / falconpressnews.org, Frank W. Cox High School, Virginia Beach, VA;
Harker Aquila / harkeraquila.com, The Harker School, San Jose, CA;
Knight Errant / bsmknighterrant.org, Benilde-St. Margaret's, Saint Louis Park, MN;
Niles West News / nileswestnews.org, Niles West High School, Skokie, IL;
Pathfinder / pwestpathfinder.com, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, MO;
Raider Voice / theraidervoice.com, Gulliver Preparatory School, Miami, FL;
Spyglass / westridgespyglass.org, Westridge School, Pasadena, CA;
Staley News / staleynews.com, Staley High School, Kansas City, MO;
The Bobcat Prowl / thebobcatprowl.com, South Windsor High School, South Windsor, CT;
The Feather / thefeather.com, Fresno Christian Schools, Fresno, CA;
The Foothill Dragon Press / foothilldragonpress.org, Foothill Technology High School, Ventura, CA;
The Horizon / westwoodhorizon.com, Westwood High School, Austin, TX;
The Journal / phsjournal.com, Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg, WV;
The Paly Voice / palyvoice.com, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA;
The Rock / rockmediaonline.org, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch, CO;
The Voice / vandegriftvoice.com, Vandegrift High School, Austin, TX;
Westside Wired / westsidewired.net, Westside High School, Omaha, NE.
Silver Middle School Digital News
Livewire / aajhslivewire.com, Altoona Area Junior High School, Altoona, PA.
Silver News Hybrid News
Central Times / centraltimes.org, Naperville Central High School, Naperville, IL;
Common Sense / woottoncommonsense.com, Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, MD;
The Accolade / shhsaccolade.com, Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton, CA;
The Blueprint / hhsblueprint.com, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, FL;
The Communicator / chscommunicator.com, Community High School, Ann Arbor, MI;
The Cypress / thecypressonline.com, Brookline High School, Brookline, MA;
The Epic / lhsepic.com, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA;
The Epitaph / hhsepitaph.com, Homestead High School, Cupertino, CA;
The Evanstonian / evanstonian.net, Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL;
The Fourcast / hockadayfourcast.org, The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX;
The Fourth Estate / thefourthestate.net, Laguna Blanca School, Santa Barbara, CA;
The Hawk Eye / hebronhawkeye.com, Hebron High School, Carrollton, TX;
The Huron Emery / thehuronemery.com, Huron High School, Ann Arbor, MI;
The Inkblot / theinkblotnews.com, Communications High School, Walls Township, NJ;
The Newsstreak / hhsmedia.com, Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg, VA;
The Prospector / prospectornow.com, Prospect High School, Mount Prospect, IL;
The Puma Press / uprepmedia.com, University Prep, Seattle, WA;
The Purple Tide / chantillynews.org, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, VA;
The Saratoga Falcon / saratogafalcon.org, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, CA;
The Sidekick / coppellstudentmedia.com, Coppell High School, Coppell, TX;
The Tide / thermtide.com, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD;
tjTODAY / tjTODAY.org, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA;
Tower / tower.mastersny.org, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY;
Tribal Tribune / tribaltribune.org, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, SC;
UltraViolet / theultraviolet.com, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA.
Silver High School Print News
Crane-Clarion, Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI;
Crier, Munster High School, Munster, IN;
Crimson Crier, Sparkman High School, Harvest, AL;
Northwest Passage, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, KS;
Panorama, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, MO;
Piper, Campbell Hall School, North Hollywood, CA;
ReMarker, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX;
Tech Talk, Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical High School, Harwich, MA;
The Hawk, Hendrickson High School, Pflugerville, TX;
The Marquee, Marcus High School, Flower Mound, TX;
Update, H. H. Dow High School, Midland, MI;
Silver High School Yearbook
Apollo, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, VA;
Calumet, Arapahoe High School, Centennial, CO;
Cayuse, Walnut High School, Walnut, CA;
Crag, Turner Ashby High School, Bridgewater, VA;
Dimensions, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville, MD;
Hauberk, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, KS;
Helios, Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton, CA;
La Vista, Mountain View High School, Mesa, AZ;
Lion's Roar, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, TN;
Marksmen, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX;
Pawesehi, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, MO;
Raider, Gulliver Preparatory School, Miami, FL;
Rambler, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, MO;
Reflections, Brighton High School, Brighton, CO;
Taurus, Diamond Bar High School, Diamond Bar, CA;
The Arena, Legacy High School, Mansfield, TX;
The Howl, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, NV;
The Lair, Leander High School, Leander, TX;
The Lair, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, KS;
The Marauder, Marcus High School, Flower Mound, TX;
The Stampede, J.W. Mitchell High School, Trinity, FL;
The Warrior, Venice High School, Venice, FL;
Silver Middle School Yearbook
Oleum, Pearland Junior High West, Pearland, TX;
The Raider, Gulliver Preparatory Middle School, Coral Gables, FL;
The Round-Up, Woodland Junior High School, Fayetteville, AR;
The Stinger, Brookville Middle School, Lynchburg, VA.