Richards students earn High Honors

Harold L. Richards High School in Oak Lawn proudly announces that the students listed below earned High Honors for the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year.

Administrators noted that the number of students qualifying for academic honors compared favorably to previous semesters. At one point last fall, they realized that the limits of remote learning exerted an adverse effect on student grades.

Together with teachers, they intervened with a range of measures to help students succeed.

“Due to these unprecedented times, we realized a significant increase in failures as of October across the district,” said Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Josh Barron.

“Through the work of our Multi-Tiered System of Supports teams and the tireless work from our teachers to connect, tutor and provide make up opportunities, our end results were not much different than the past five years in terms of student failures. The Herculean efforts from all stakeholders provided the best-case scenario for grades in this uncertain and hopefully once in a lifetime moment in our nationwide school system,” Barron added.

Students with a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.99 earn High Honors:

Freshmen

Raneem Abdeljaber, Waleed Ahmad, Zaid Alasasleh, Ricky Allen, Yara Alzoubi, Leena Ashour, Naseem Awadh, Ava Canino, Mia Coglianese, Madelyn Debleyzer, Brandon Devivo, Christian Diaz, Yomaris Diaz, Allison Dole, Joanna Enriquez, Marcus Hartgraves, Samia Hasan, Jazmin Jimenez, Zaid Kartoum, Morgan Kmiec, Alberto Mayorga, Riyadh Musad, Isabella Nanez, Dior Newson, Grace Norville, Antonio Pawlecki, Summer Porter, Abigail Price, Benjamin Queen, Isaiah Reid, Charley Seibert, Natalia Skobel, Sean Smith, Rachael Snyder, Joseph Strozak, Justin Todd, Michael Wickman.

Sophomores

Andrea Abarca, Rana Abazied, Husam Ahmed, Hisham Alawi, Asrah Alhabib, Mariam Alkhaldi, Adam Almrayati, Kaira Bailey, Jurgen Beqiraj, Abigail Bonen, Nathan Bradbury, Jacob Busko, Jessica Butler, Matthew Campbell, Anna Collado, Haroon Damra, Xavier Diloy, Donte Edwards, Joseph Fraider, Aurora Frawley-O'Shea, Jesse Gonzalez, Aniya Graham, Madeline Iniguez, Olivia Jeziorczak, Sateen Khalifa, Matthew Kieta, Mikolaj Kloczkowski, Ryne Luna, Cole Maranda, Mia Mason, Michael Maura, Andres Maxinez, Francesca Mioni, Nadia Mirza, Hashem Nowara, Hatem Othman, Sanaa Parker, Wiktoria Potenta, Selim Rabbat, Stephanie Ramirez, Jael Rodgers, Mohamed Saleh, Jahlonni Smith, Tomyra Stampley, Michael Stasik, Kierra Turner, Savannah Vahl, Eileen Villasenor, Mollie Warren, Logan Williams.

Juniors

Malak Ajaj, Aseel Alsouliman, Sandra Aoun, Zachary Armistead, Adam Barakat, Llan Brown, Jaray Brown, Alexis Calderon, Andrew Campos, Madyson Carothers, Anthony Caschetta, Tanaya Caudle, Om Chaudhari, Angelina Chavarria, Marissa Cortes, Maria Cruz, Shawn Gorman, Khiya Greenan, Julianna Guerrero, Gianna Guzman, Yasmin Hasan, Emani Hunter, Sadeen Hussein, Hamza Issa, Christon Jackson, Madyson Jeziorski, Kai Jones, Rachel Lipczynski, Christopher Lockett, Montserrat Marquez Gomez, Nina Mitre, Chelsea Moody, Sergio Mora, Jada Myrick, Keira O'Brien, Babatunde Ogunleye, Dejari Partlow, Ved Patel, Chris Peralta, Gabrielle Pickett, Rosa Ramirez, Fernando Rangel, Dena Rihan, Brianna Rihani, Anthony Rivera, Rachel Rodriguez, Kendall Rohe, David Rojas, Paulina Romo, Zahid Sanchez, Emin Saric, Ryan Schmidt, Geena Shenault, Saniyah Sloss, Diamond Smith, Berenice Solis, Katrina Strauts, Kyle Stroud, Adham Sumreen, Benjamin Thoms, Jordan Tooles, Alexandra Valenzuela, Vajah Venson, Jadon Wilson, Adriana Witkus, Luke Ziolkowski.

Seniors

Yasmin Abdullah, Wasfi Ahmed, Qusai Ajaj, Ali Alawi, Khalese Alexander, Selina Ammari, Matthew Balich, Jacqueline Ballesteros, Julianna Becerra, Jaclyn Blazevic, Ximena Calzada, Mekhi Carr, Angelique Clark, Ryan Cook, Kareona Davis, Aimee Diaz, Julie Diaz, Trinity Dockery, Mia Doro, Patrick Edmondson, Damian Robert Espinosa, Ahmed Farag, Sharif Farhat, Adrian Flores, Ryan Garcia, Madison Glesge, Michelle Gonzalez, Rami Hadi, Tyria Hall, Destiny Hendricks, Nicholas Hernandez, Nicolas Houston, Chyna Houzah, Oscar Jauregui, Jordyn Jenkins, Ashley Jones, Shakhzoda Khotamova, Kayla King, Rashaun King, Leslie Lopez, Shante Morrow, Ibrahim Muhamad, Mohamed Musad, Ally Mynarich, Ayah Naser, Krystian Para, Miontae Pernell, Nicholas Pierce, Nya Porter, Margaret Pratl, Julianna Ramirez, Mohammad Rayyan, Jeneen Razzeq, Muna Sadeq, Fabian Santoyo, Tatiana Shaikh-Ali, Aaliyah Shepherd, Akili Smith, Autumn Stanke, Aja Thomas, Luke Vana, Catherine Zamlynski.