Romeoville, Bolingbrook Students Named AP Scholars

Submitted by Valley View School District 365U

Seventy-two Valley View School District 365U students have been named AP Scholars in recognition of their high achievement on Advanced Placement exams during the 2014-15 school year.

●AP Scholars With Distinction (average score of at least 3.5 on all exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more exams) were:

From Romeoville High School—McDavis Ansere, Cole Brooker, Alameen Kamara, Gloria Mileva and Isabel Joyce Ruiz

From Bolingbrook High School—Evan Adams, Afrah Ali, Jeremy Karevich, Mateusz Kroczyk, Jennifer La, Mary Masek, and Melissa Moy.

●AP Scholars With Honor (average score of at least 3.25 on all exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more exams) were:

From Romeoville High School—Julianna Bochnak, Robin Czajowski, Brandon Ramos and Nathaniel Zipperich

From Bolingbrook High School—Marco Becerra, James Bennett, Dania harris, Matthew Jaskowiak, Jack Kayhart, Rey Paranal, Angelina Perez, Miranda Reinert, Lauren Sanchez, Cynthia Silva, Jordan Taylor and Ryan Wagner.

●AP Scholars (average score of at least 3 on three or more exams) were:

From Romeoville High School—Ty Adams, Gabriela Archila, Michael Caballes, William Caron, Emily Czajowski, Alexandra Garcia, Ciera Higgins, Emilee Jones, Brandon Kavaliunas, James Lefaiver, Kyle Listermann, Kegan Orloff and James Zahorick

From Bolingbrook High School—Juhn Alita, Amira Aquino, Kaia Ball, Esmeralda Barajas, Dylan Bogash, Caseylin Cheng, Johnathon Cook, Ruben Cordoba, Maxwell Dimgba, Jonathan Dyke, Curt Ederle, Brandon Fagust, Paul Flores, Robert Hixson, Tyler Holmes, Emma Hoyt, Jena Johnson, Robert Kaminski, Francis Levins, Molly Makowski, Ashby Martin, Rafael Sanchez, Jeffrey Santana, Carlos Santos, Preston Scott, Timothy Sosa, Joseph Tykane, Kelsey Wahlgren, Ashley Wheaton, Rachel Wood and Gregory Worlton.

The AP Scholars program recognizes students who have demonstrated college-level achievement through the AP courses they have taken and on a variety of nationally-administered AP tests in such areas as English language comprehension, English literature comprehension, calculus, biology, chemistry, physics, art history and more.

Eight Romeoville High School students achieved the top score of 5 on several exams including Mileva (biology and two calculus exams), Ruiz (U.S. history and two calculus exams), Zipperich (two calculus exams), Ramos (two calculus exams), Listermann (two calculus exams), Anthony Spiewak (English language comprehension), Zahorick (European history and calculus AB), Bochnak (calculus AB), Ansere (European history), Alvaro Almanza-Gaytan (Spanish language), and Teresa Gomez (Spanish language).

Bolingbrook High School students who achieved a top score of 5 on a test included Alita (U.S. history), Aquino (English language comprehension and U.S. history), Barajas (Spanish language), Cook (calculus BC), Fagust (English language comprehension and U.S. history), Flores (Spanish language), Holmes (U.S. history), Santana (calculus AB), Santos (music theory), Sosa (calculus AB), Becerra (Spanish language), Kayhart (U.S. history), Wagner (English language comprehension), Silva (Spanish language), Adams (U.S. History), Ali (statistics), Karevich (science), Kroczyk (U.S. history), La (calculus AB), Masek (English language comprehension, English literature comprehension and U.S. history), and Moy (English language comprehension and calculus AB).

Over the past five years, the number of VVSD students taking AP exams has increased 52.8 percent, compared to a nationwide increase of 33 percent. In addition, the number of VVSD students scoring 3 or higher on an AP exam increased by 51.2 percent compared to the national average of 32.6 percent.