WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

321 List Ave.      Rochester, NY 14617

 

To:           Irondequoit Post, D&C

 

From:      Carol A. Crumlish, Director of Public Information, 336-3067

 

Date:       October 11, 2006

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Irondequoit High School students named AP Scholars

One hundred and thirteen students at Irondequoit High School have earned the designation of AP scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) exams. 

 

The Advanced Placement program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school, and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP exams.  About 18 percent of the more than 1.3 million high school students in more than 16,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP scholar.

 

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams. 

 

National AP Scholar Award – Students must earn an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5 point scale of all exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.  These students are: Andrew Brady, Andrea Currie, William Finan, Andrew Nadeau, Paula Patton, John Pellito, Jennifer Rafferty, and Colin Streb.

 

Scholar with Distinction – Students must earn an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.  These students are: Daniel Bach, Emily Birch, Erin Blanding, Steven Boor, Andrew Brady, Jeffrey Brayer, Kayla Carpitella, Dmitriy Chukhin, Whitney Clair, Rachael Comstock, Andrea Currie, John Dakin, Bradley Damtoft, William Finan, Audrey Flosenzier, Emily German, Stephen Goewey, Susanna Guarino, Michael Hanss, John Hawver, Seval Kanik, Alec Kristal-Ragdale, Caryn Littler, Erin Lower, Zoe McLaughlin, Mara Mercer, Elizabeth Moroni, Martha Murphy, Andrew Nadeau, Patrick Nadeau, John Pardo, Paula Patton, John Pellito, Ian Perry, Jennifer Phillips, Jennifer Rafferty, Tegan Schuh, Sydney Schutte, Colin Streb, Beth Summers, Marvin Thielk, Matthew Vincent, Sarah Walker, and Courtney Zon.

 

AP Scholar with Honor – Students must receive an average grade of 3.25 on all exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are: Brenna Boerman, Daniel Foresha, Debra Goldberg, Alice Hellyar, Luke Homerin, William Juda, Lauren Keller, Christopher Maloney, Abby Marianetti, Kyle Sarbou, Alexander Scoglio, Catherine Spallina, and Sarah Tallman.

 

AP Scholar – Students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher.  The AP Scholars are: Andrej Ababovic, Maria Angelov, Margaret Baum, Andrew Black, Bryana Borrelli, Michael Bull, Rachel Carstens, Abigail Carter, John Chen, Anthony Chipre, Faith Cleveland, Connor Coffey, Caitlin Coleman, Mark Crean, Abby Dineen, Meredith Doyle, Kimberly Enerson, Shanelle France, Jessica Furner, Adam Goga, Bryan Goldberg, Carolyn Gonzalez, Amanda Grabowski, Eligh Hanning, Emily Herendeen, Gregory Hoople, Katherine Izzo, Maureen Jones, Lauren Knauf, Jenilyn Kramer, Megan Langley, Sierra Marcussi, Alison McKenna, Janice Murphy, Robert Napier, Aaron Nobles, Adrienne Olson, Lauren Picariello, Jacob Schindler, Christopher Scipione, Lwam Tecleab, Andrew Thompson, Robert Utter, Carl Vernetti, Katherine Wallace, Laura Walzer, Rebecca Weaver, and Elyka Yi. 

 

 

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For further information contact Carol Crumlish, WICSD Director of Public Information @ 336-3067 or 703-6460.