National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Production Awards

Best Student Newscast Student Production Emmy Award - 2018-2019 KCBY Show 25 - Fernando Cornejo, Shania Khan, Landon Flesher, Kelsey Leffingwell, Maddie Hulcy, Vinny Vincenzo
(2 Nominations) Best Newscast - 2018 KCBY Show 25 & KCBY Español Show 2 - Mildred Padilla and Besma Khadhim.
(CHS was the only school in the nation to receive two nominations for the top award and the only school with a Spanish newscast.)

Lone Star Student Production Emmy Awards

Dallas, Fall 2020

Best Newscast – 2020 KCBY Show 20 - Mildred Padilla, Robert Bizacky, Sandesh Bharthur
Best General Assignment News – Stuck Overseas - Tabi Tudor 
Best Sports Documentary – E-sports - Sandesh Bharthur
Best High School Fiction – Coppell Rewind - Mildred Padilla, Robert Bizacky, Sandesh Bharthur
Best High School Non-fiction – E-sports - Sandesh Bharthur
Best High School Animation/Graphics/Special Effects – Coppell Rewind - Sandesh Bharthur
Best Director – Coppell Rewind - Robert Bizacky
Best Editor - Coppell Rewind - Sandesh Bharthur
Best Photographer - Coppell Rewind - Mildred Padilla, Robert Bizacky, Sandesh Bharthur

​National Scholastic Press Association

Fall 2020

2020 KCBY Show Pacemaker Nomination – The "Pulitzer Prize” of Scholastic Broadcasting
(KCBY has received four nominations and three Pacemaker Awards in the past five years)

4th Place - 2020 Broadcast Stories of the Year - COVID-19 Broadcast Coverage, Stuck Overseas - Tabi Tudor
Honorable Mention, Sports Story - E-sports - Sandesh Bharthur
Honorable Mention, Broadcast Feature Story - Tribute to a Life Lost - Juliana Thompson, Natalie Adam

Leadership

Program Directors: Hailey Wilkins, Natalie Adams, Juliana Thompson
Sr. Producer: Khushi Bansal
Technical Director: Mark Santaue
Broadcast Directors: Rose Park, Arunima Chhimwal
Sports Directors: Thea Massi, Conner Escobar
Special Features: Aaron Ma
Special Projects: Oliver Isenberg, Jada D’Silva