Since 1987:

• Superior Rating in grade VI earned by the top CHS Orchestra in each District Festival performance
• Performed by invitation at five Virginia Music Education Conferences
• Sales of three CHS Orchestra CD's have topped $50,000

2006:
Two Superior Ratings, First Place, Division V, and Second Place, Division VI, Atlanta Fiesta-Val

2005:
Two Superior Ratings and Overall Grand Champions for Orchestra, Caribbean Cruise Music Festival (Bahamas)

2004:
Two Superior Ratings, First Place Division V, First Place Division VI, Overall Orchestra Champions, and Overall Grand Champions, Virginia Beach Fiesta-Val

2004:
One of eight finalists to win $2,000 in the first-ever National Orchestra Festival, sponsored by the American String Teachers Association and National School Orchestra Association, Dallas

2003:
Two superior ratings, first place Division AA, first place Division AAA, Orchestra Champions, Boston Heritage Festival

2002:
First Place Division V, First Place Division VI, two Superior Ratings, Orchestra Champions, and Overall Grand Champions, Myrtle Beach Fiesta-Val

2001:
Two Gold Medals, Mid-West Festival of Music, Chicago

2000:
Superior Rating, First Place in class and Overall Orchestra Champions, All-American Music Festival, Orlando

1999:
Two Gold Medals, New York, NY, Festival of Music

1998:
Second Place, International Youth and Music Festival, Vienna, Austria (first place went to a university honors ensemble from Australia.) CHSO's 10-day European tour included performances in Halstatt, Austria, the Votivekirke in Vienna, and in Krabcice, Czech Republic

1997:
First Place Division V, First Place Division VI, two Superior Ratings, Orchestra Champions, Myrtle Beach Fiesta-Val

1996:
Superior Rating, Grand Champions, Boston, New England Festival

1995:
Received standing ovation for performance at opening concert at Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, Chicago

1995:
First place Division V, First Place Division VI, two Superior Ratings, Orchestra Champions, and Overall Grand Champions, Virginia Beach Fiesta-Val

1994:
Superior Rating, Overall Orchestra Champions, Atlanta North American Music Festival

1993:
First Place Division V, First Place Division VI, two Superior Ratings, Orchestra Champions, and Overall Grand Champions, Myrtle Beach Fiesta-Val

1992:
Gold Medal, New York, NY, Festival of Music

1991:
First Place Division VI, Superior Rating, Overall Concert Champions, Williamsburg, Va., Fiesta-Val

1990:
First Place, Superior Rating, and Orchestra Champions at Myrtle Beach Fiesta-Val

1989:
Gold Medal at New York, NY, Festival of Music