NORTH BERWICK – Noble High School in North Berwick, which was designed by Harriman Associates of Auburn, will receive its ninth award for excellence in design April 17, with the presentation of the William W. Caudill Award by American School & University magazine.

Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of the Kansas-based publication, will present the award at the SAD 60 board meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the high school.

Harriman Associates, a full-service architecture and engineering firm in Auburn and Portland, designed the 1,500-student, 270,000-square-foot school, which opened in September 2001.

The award is the highest in an annual competition for educational architecture that has been sponsored by the magazine for 20 years and honors a man whose ideas on school architecture made him an authority in the field.