visit us beginning August 19 to enroll your school for the 2025-2026 program year!
Join us for the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee by enrolling your elementary or middle school beginning August 19, 2025!
Inspire a love of learning and give your students the words they need to shine their light on the world. Your students will develop language skills and increase their vocabularies, practice poise under pressure, strengthen life skills, build confidence and have fun!
the A to Z of joining the Bee
Educators enroll elementary and middle schools at spellingbee.com. Choose to participate with in-person, online and hybrid options. Enrollment is open from August 19, 2025, through January 30, 2026.*
*Restrictions apply in some areas.
School Bee Coordinators access study materials and word lists through an online portal of resources and distribute these materials to other educators and students at their schools.
Throughout the fall, educators administer Classroom and School Spelling Bees using resources provided as part of a school's enrollment. Schools celebrate school champions who will head off to compete in the next round of their area's spelling bee program.
School champions compete in Regional Qualifier and Regional Spelling Bees sponsored by regional partners across the country.
Regional champions study for the National Competition and register for Bee Week, a week-long celebration of academic achievement filled with events and special programming.
In May, spellers arrive in the Washington, D.C., area to take part in the Bee Week experience, and a national Champion is declared during a nationally televised live broadcast.
learn more in the educator guide
Read the Bee's Educator Guide to learn more about bringing the spelling bee to your school. You'll also hear about 2024 Educator of the Year Dr. Alexander Carr's experience last year.
what do you receive for enrolling with the Bee?
For $185 per school, we provide everything you need to organize Classroom and School Spelling Bees plus the pathway for your school champion to compete in your community's regional spelling bee program.
These resources are all found within the exclusive educators-only section of spellingbee.com when your school enrolls:
Official study lists for your students, organized by grade level
Words of the Champions, the 4,000-word study guide for school champions
Supplemental vocabulary materials for classroom and school levels
Official competition lists for use in conducting Classroom and School Spelling Bees
Access to the Online Testing Platform, a tool that gives educators the flexibility to administer a school spelling bee program via online tests (available September 30)
The Great Words, Great Works book list with all source books for words on the School Spelling Bee Study List, organized by reading level
How-to guides and trainings for School Spelling Bee Coordinators
Customizable certificates for your participants and school champion
think you're already enrolled?
Enter your school's zip code below to check your enrollment status for the 2024-2025 school year.
giving students the words they need
"The Bee supports my goal to inspire students’ love of reading. There might be a child who doesn't want to pick up a book, but they'll dig into a list of words and a dictionary to figure out what they really mean."
— Courtney Sutton, fifth grade teacher at Austin Elementary School
bee-come your district's spelling champion
Enroll multiple schools from your district at once using our district access enrollment system and give even more students the resources to begin their spelling bee journeys.