Pope John XXII students receive AP honors

SPARTA — Fifty-two students at Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their achievements on AP exams. At Pope John XXIII High School, two students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of four or higher on a five-point scale on all AP exams taken, and grades of four or higher on eight or more of these exams. They are: Paige Boehmcke and Justin Dittmeier. Nineteen students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and grades of three or higher on five or more of these exams. They are: Richard Albertini, Michelle Banas, Jonathan Black, Paige Boehmcke, Justin Dittmeier, Bridget Freihart, David Gahary, Christopher Gaus, Pamela Hitscherich, Bradley Holenstein, Kasey Homa, Ioni Kokodis, Alexandra Lowcher, Michael Maneri, Kathleen Oroho, Thomas Potter, Helen Uczkowski, Adam Wechsler and Nerissa Williams. Thirteen students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and grades of three or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are Andrew Born, Richard Gangloff, Kyle Johnson, Julianne Kallas, Ye Eun Kim, Marc Kunesch, Megan Lang, Gabriela Magdaleno, Mackenzie Miller, Megan Murdock, Benjamin Rabe, Jennifer Schmeyer and Rebecca Townsend. Twenty students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of three or higher. The AP Scholars are Robbie Babb, Frank Belardo, Chelsea Callahan, Jessica Card, Emily Carrollo, Kristen Ferriero, Karly Fisher, Courtney Higgins, Katarzyna Hojdas, John Lodge, Vincent Lovasco, Evelyn Meisenbacher, Katharine Miller, Kyle Nelson, Selena Noel, Christopher Patterson, Joshua Steele, Jacob Sutherland, Dillon White and Garret Wolan. Of this year’s award recipients at Pope John XXIII High School, eight were juniors. These students have one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn a higher-level AP Scholar Award. The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the nearly 1.7 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.