Five Kern County schools that applied for California’s “Distinguished Schools” awards were honored in results released by the California Department of Education (CDE) on April 16. The schools designated "distinguished" are: Kern Valley High and Stockdale High - Kern High School District, Woodrow W. Wallace Middle School - Kernville Union School District, Earl Warren Jr. High and Tevis Jr. High - Panama-Buena Vista Union School District. They are five of the 171 California public junior high, middle and high schools that will be honored as Distinguished Schools May 18 at an awards ceremony at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.