Westport's Staples High School Names 2023 Graduates With High Honors

The following announcement is from Westport Public Schools:

WESTPORT, CT — Twenty one exceptional students have been honored with the distinction of graduating with High Honors from the Staples High School Class of 2023. A student will be designated with "High Honors" if his/her academic grade point average falls in the top 4 percent of the graduating class.

According to Principal Stafford W. Thomas, Jr., “This class, is extremely talented and the most
astonishing aspect of this accomplishment, is that these students were involved in a number of
extracurricular activities and various aspects of school life which took a great deal of time, focus
and concentration outside of the classroom as well. We were lucky to have had them for four
years and we will no doubt be hearing about their next great achievements in the years to come.
Congratulations Class of 2023 High Honors students!”

The following students are the class of 2023 High Honors honorees: Kyle Thomas Ambrose, Sharmila Abbie Green, Julia Morgan Herlyn, Nikhil Kanthan, Witt Moore Lindau, Reilly
Katherine McCaffrey, Jaden Emma Mello, Janna Harrison Moore, Colin Alexander Morgeson, Meredith Leigh Mulhern, Quinn Julia Mulvey, Krishna Reddy, Ryan Sidney Salik, Rebecca Hope Schussheim, Matthew Lee Shackelford, Eva Strom Simonte, Ethan Jet Tober, Katherine Elizabeth Valante, Lucia Julianne Wang, Lilly Brooke Weisz, Tom X Zhang.

(Photo Front Row, from left: Ryan Sidney Salik, Kyle Thomas Ambrose, Krishna Reddy, Matthew Lee Shackelford, Tom X Zhang, Jaden Emma Mello, Eva Strom Simonte, Quinn Julia Mulvey, Meredith Leigh Mulhern, Sharmila Abbie Green, Lucia Julianne Wang, Rebecca Hope Schussheim, and Lilly Brooke Weisz. Back Row, from left: Witt Moore Lindau, Colin Alexander Morgeson, Nikhil Kanthan, Ethan Jet Tober, Katherine Elizabeth Valante, Reilly Katherine McCaffrey, Julia Morgan Herlyn, and Janna Harrison Moore)