St. Joseph's Regional has 65 students qualifying as Johns Hopkins University candidates
Newton Sixty-five students from St. Joseph Regional School in Newton were recently selected as Johns Hopkins University candidates due to their outstanding achievement on the 2010 Terra Nova test. To qualify for Johns Hopkins consideration, a student must score in the top five percent nationally in one of six fields. All 65 students can now sit for a second exam, and should they perform well, they would qualify to take courses sponsored by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. Its purpose is to search is to identify, assess, and recognize the academic capabilities of highly capable students. Seventh and eight grade students can register thru CTY, to take the College Board SAT or the ACT, the same test given to juniors and seniors in high school. The three students who qualified from the eighth grade are: Cyrus Farr, Natalie Martin and Marianna Sternefeld. The 11 qualifying seventh-graders are: Nicole Barnett, Rebecca Bulko, Emily Burns, Andrew Cooney, Annika Dugan, Kathryn LeFrois, Madelyn LeFrois, Wyatt Long, Charles Sengor and Francis Short. Students who qualify in the second thru sixth grades can register to take school and College Ability or the SCAT. The nine qualifying sixth-graders are: Dayne Cakerri, Anna Campbell, Anthony Giordano, Marina Veliz, Ava Villaverde, Nicholas Villeda, Arianna Ippolito, Julia Nehrings and Tara O’Keefe. In the fifth grade, the nine students are: Timothy Houlihan, Robert Kerwick, Edward Martinez-Partida, Bridget Murphy, Katelyn O’Connor, Jordan Paladini, Jack Ryan, Ronan Smarth and Sienna Tipton. The six qualifying fourth-grade students are: Michaela Bennett, Ryan Cordero, Matthew Emering, Brianna Gonzalez, Matthew Malvey, and Edward McAdam. The 15 students who qualifed in the 3rd grade are: Jason Cakerri, Ryan Cakerri, Zachary Ellicott, Rebecca Miller, Bridget O’Keefe, Michael Packolarz, Julia Ragno, Gabrielle Zukowski, Matthew Hanifan, Michael Hanifan, Abigail Maher, Martha Sengor, Aidan Smarth, Mark Sternefeld and Petra Zadroga.