• Tacoma Community Daffodil Festival

  --Grand Award (April 1998)

• Administrator of the Year

  --Grace Wright, Chief Leschi Elementary School (awarded at National Indian School Board national conference, 1997)

• Office of Indian Education Teacher of the Year Award

  -- Teresa Harvey, Chief Leschi Elementary School (awarded at National Indian School Board national conference, 1995)

• National Indian School Board Student of the Year Award

  -- Lenissa Grover, Chief Leschi High School (awarded at National Indian School Board national conference, 1995)

• Tacoma Community Daffodil Festival

  --has won an award every year since 1987

• Nomination for Blue Ribbon Secondary Schools recognition

  -- Department of Education, 1994

• Bureau of Indian Affairs Outstanding Programs recognition

  -- for the CHOICES intergenerational family literacy program, 1993

• National Indian School Boards Superintendent of the Year Award, 1993

  -- Linda Rudolph, Chief Leschi Schools Superintendent

• Chief Oroloswa Award

  -- Office of Indian Education Exemplary School Board Award (awarded by the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Interior Department, Washington D.C., 1992)

• National Drug-Free School Award

  -- presented by President Bush in 1989

• Chapter One Exemplary Programs recognition

  -- Department of Education, 1988

Chief Leschi School, through the leadership and support of the Puyallup Tribe and Chief Leschi School Board, remain committed to providing learning opportunities for Native American youth that are sensitive to each child's cultural heritage, and that are second to none!