Lemont High School Tabbed To 2023 AP Honor Roll

LEMONT, IL — Lemont High School students put together a record-setting performance on the college-level Advanced Placement exams last spring, establishing four new single-year bests for the school. Additionally, Lemont was named to the 2023 AP Honor Roll, earning “Silver” recognition, the school said in a news release.

The College Board’s AP Program offers students the opportunity to take college-level courses while still enrolled in high school, allowing them to receive college credit, advanced placement at the college level, or both based on their performance on the AP exams, according to the school.

The AP School Honor Roll recognizes schools that have done outstanding work to welcome more students into AP courses and support them on the path to college success. Schools are rated in the areas of “College Culture” (number of recently graduated seniors who took at least one AP exam in their careers), “College Credit” (number of recently graduated seniors who passed at least one AP exam in their careers), and “College Optimization” (percent of recent graduates who took five or more AP exams in their careers, including at least one as a freshman or sophomore).

To receive AP Honor Roll Silver recognition, LHS said schools must score at least 50 percent in “College Culture”, at least 30 percent in “College Credit”, and at least five percent in “College Optimization.” Lemont scored 55 percent, 40 percent, and 17 percent in those categories, respectively.

Its “College Credit” score met the criteria for the Gold designation, and its “College Optimization” score met the standard for Platinum recognition.

Lemont students combined to take 850 AP exams in 2023, and 73.6 percent of those exams resulted in scores of 3 or better, which was just shy of the school record of 73.8 percent set in 2020. The school’s highest success rates, which is defined as the percentage of students scoring 3 or better, were in AP World History (97.50 percent), AP English Literature & Composition (93.33 percent), AP Physics 2 (91.67 percent), AP Computer Science Principles (90.48 percent) and AP Biology (88.89 percent), the school said.

Lemont had 472 students take at least one AP exam in 2023, and a school-record 77.5 percent of those students recorded at least one score of 3 or better on an AP exam. The previous school record for percentage of students earning at least one passing score on an AP exam came in 2020, when 75.4 percent of Lemont’s AP students achieved the feat.

Lemont also set school records for the number of students passing at least one AP exam and for the total number of passing exams. There were 366 students who passed at least one exam, which eclipsed the 361 students who did so in 2022. The total number of 626 passing exams edged the previous record (624) set in 2020.

Lemont had 146 students earn recognition from the College Board, which was just short of an all-time high of 151 honorees in 2020, the school said. A school-record 52 students earned AP Scholar with Distinction accolades, while 32 students were cited with AP Scholar with Honor recognition, and 62 more were tabbed as AP Scholars.

The 52 students - including 24 Class of 2023 graduates and 28 current seniors - who qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award did so by earning an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of the exams they took, the school said.

The graduates include Arnav Anand, Olivia Antolak, Danielle Arabe, Julia Bacon, Adam Briestensky, John Crispo, Kevin Dillenburg, Elle Jeffress, Andrew Kula, Emily Kuzur, McKinley McManus, Monika Morkunas, John O’Connor, Neha Samuel, Toni Sarussi, Eliana Scoville, Matthew Sharp, Greta Svedas, Anna Swenson, Aashka Trivedi, John Vranas, Cameron Wehn, Natalia Zalinski and Delaney Zimmerman. Current senior honorees include Jammir Aloya, Matas Antanavicius, Isabella Canali, Riley Conry, Andrew Davey, Daniel Drobnic, Martin Dumbliauskas, Amelia Dunkin, Alexander Fako, Owen Geraghty, Ryan Geraghty, Kevin Hackiewicz, Andrew Kiel, Daria Koslosky, Krystian Kozieja, Kamil Morawa, Alana Nisperos, Tess O’Brien, Noah O’Connor, Lydia Pelen, Nauris Piatek, Anthony Reyna, Alessandrea Sarno, Maximillian Schuette, Anthony Scruggs, Nathan Tilly, Natalia Zagata and Nora Zhou.

A total of 32 students - nine graduates, 21 current seniors and two current juniors - qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of the exams they took.

Those honorees included graduates Deividas Bilevicius, Camryn Caruso, Andrew Custodio, Anthony Montalto, Violet Rojo, Reagan Russell, Jaclyn Shoudis, Alexander Tan and Angeleah Vallianatos; current seniors Michael Amberg, David Arroyo, Sean Arundel, Angelo Babista, Stephanie Deuschle, Adyson DuVall, Zachary Farrell, Juliann Hamernik, Emily Hunnewell, Emma Manthey, Elise McCann, Jackson McManus, Anastasios Mikroulis, Elizabeth Moonier, Everett Obler, Brett Paluch, Helena Panek, Natalia Tyrala, Aaron Valyaneth, Zachary Williams and Maja Zielonka; and current juniors Max Bruzga and Donovan Moleski.

A total of 62 students - including 29 graduates, 25 current seniors and eight current juniors - qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with scores of 3 or higher.

Included among those honorees are graduates Dulce Alfaro, Rina Alul, Domenico Auriemma, Erin Barndollar, Miles Beachum, Caleb Bozue, Liam Carey, Roberto Cassano, Sebastian Delatorre, Benjamin Emini, Antonio Garcia, Alyssa Greer, Jacob Heusuk, Isabella Kedryna, Suzanne Knutte, Emily Lane, Adrian Magallanes, Sage Mardjetko, Kevin Moolayil, Kathleen Persak, Makenzie Rusco, Amir Sakiri, Daniel Selle, David Shields, Logan Staubus, Sofia Vitro, Kajus Vysniauskas, Nicolette Wodziak and Annabelle Zogby. Current seniors Zoe Austin, Arwa Badruddin, Krystian Bawiec, Sierra Bleka, Mason Crisostomo, Emily Curylo, Ugne Dainyte, Spencer Fischer, Isabella Hinz, Martin Kaminski, Michelle Karimpumkalayil, Abbey Lakickas, Kylie Meloni, Julia Mielczarek, Vedika Patel, Quinton Peterson, Tye Ramirez, Rehan Saraiya, Alexis Stevens, Casey Treanor, Zaaron Tyebjee, Ryan Varga Buske, Arjun Vicharapu, Lyle Winterland and Zachary Zdenovec also were cited, as were current juniors Michael Arnashus, Charles Heger, Cole Johnson, Alexander Lazarowicz, Om Patel, Anika Reddy, Jake Sulzberger and Lavya Suri.

Lemont High School currently offers 21 AP courses ­– AP Biology, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles, AP English Language & Composition, AP English Literature & Composition, AP Environmental Science, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics I, AP Physics II, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language & Culture, AP Statistics, AP Studio Art, AP U.S. Government & Politics, AP U.S. History and AP World History.