Record 302 District 202 Students Named AP Scholars

PLAINFIELD, IL — A record-high 302 District 202 high school graduates and current students have been named 2016 AP Scholars based on their performance on the Advanced Placement exams given during the 2015-2016 school year.

The 302 AP Scholars is 42 more than last year’s 260 AP Scholars, which was also a record number.

The 302 Scholars include 15 students named National AP Scholars, the highest Scholar designation. The 15 tops last year’s 11 National Scholars.

The Advanced Placement (AP) Program allows motivated and academically prepared high school students to take challenging, college-level courses and get college credit, advanced placement or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

District 202 has worked for several years to empower and encourage students to take more challenging courses.

Those efforts include offering more AP courses, increasing access to those classes and provided additional support to students who choose to take them. In 2006, District 202 offered only four AP courses. District 202 now offers 25 AP courses.

Students do not have to take the AP exams associated with their courses, but most do. Students may earn college credit for their subject area by taking the tests for their AP classes. As well, the testing program helps district staff to gauge how effectively the courses are being taught. This year’s results follow major initiatives implemented over the last several years to improve high school achievement.

That work has included raising the number of more challenging courses, making it easier for more students to take such courses and eliminating some lower-level classes, among numerous other systemic upgrades.

The 2016 AP Scholars include:

Plainfield High School – Central Campus -- 52 students, up from 33 last year;

Plainfield South High School -- 60 students, down from 61 last year;

Plainfield North High School -- 107 students, down from 111 last year;

Plainfield East High School -- 83 students, up from 55 last year.

The AP Scholar Awards are given at four levels:

AP Scholars earned at least a 3 (out of a possible five) on three or more AP exams.

• This year, District 202 had 145 AP Scholars, up from 139 last year.

AP Scholars with Honor earned an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.

• This year, District 202 had 65 AP Scholars with Honor, up from 52 last year.

AP Scholars with Distinction earned an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

• This year, District 202 had 92 AP Scholars with Distinction, up from 69 last year.

National AP Scholar status is granted to students in the United States who earn an average score of at least 4 on all AP exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

• Fifteen District 202 students earned National AP Scholar status (up from 11 last year):

PHSCC graduates Devon Palmer and Phoebe Snydersmith;

PSHS graduate Amanda Swanson;

PNHS graduates Vivek Bandapalle, Brian Batinick, Kevin Ferguson, Hunster Houslet, Kendall Junger, Riley Keenan, Andi Mankolli, Emily Restuccia, Emily Terian and Paul Wilkens;

PEHS graduates Erika Barrios and Alexander Clark.

Highlights from this year’s AP Scholar data:

Seventeen students took at least 10 AP exams out of possible 20 (up from 10 last year):

• PHSCC – Bridget Ketter and Mark Syrek (10), Madeline Shay (11);

• PSHS – Nicole Christoff and Marissa Walker (10), William Sarkas (11); Brandon Dattomo (12);

• PNHS – Hunter Houslet and Riley Keenan (10), Kevin Ferguson, Kendall Junger, Josh Stadler and Emily Terian (11), Mikayla Buford (12), and Andi Mankolli (14);
• PEHS – Erika Barrios (10), Taarak Shah (11).

One student earned an average score of “5” by scoring 5s on all exams taken (down from two last year):

• PEHS senior Claire Correll (three exams)

District 202 posted an average score of 3.56 out of a possible 5 on all tests taken (up from 3.52 last year.) By school:

• PHSCC -- 3.60 (up from 3.51 last year)

• PSHS -- 3.27 (down from 3.28 last year)

• PNHS – 3.85 (up from 3.84 last year)

• PEHS -- 3.52 (up from 3.44 last year)

2016 DISTRICT 202 AP SCHOLARS (all students are 2016 graduates, except as indicated. Where grades are noted, the noted grade is for the 2016-17 school year)

PHSCC

AP Scholars:

Pamela Binda

Megan Brock (senior)

Erick Calma

Joshua Colvin

Catherine Coyle

Noah Culbreth (senior)

Rafael Garcia (senior)

Kaiya Hietikko (senior)

Brittany Keneth

Bridget Ketter

Jakob Leiva

Cody Lister (senior)

Karen Nair

Liam Nassib

Thomas Olson

Rebecca Parmenter

David Patush (senior)

Nicholas Prah (senior)

Zachary Ryan

Emma Schoeling

Muhammad Suleman

Nathan Yusko (senior)

AP Scholar with Honor:

Amanda Arnold

Collin Bastian (senior)

Nathan Canavan (senior)

Samuel Cramer

Kacper Dudzinski

Collin Hudetz (senior)

Douglas Hug (senior)

Nicholas Ilibasic (senior)

Aichem Malubay (senior)

Riya Parikh (senior)

Sara Schwarz

Tia Smith

Jeremiah Soto

Jason Taylor

AP Scholar with Distinction

Jaycie Ackerman

Kyle Cockrell (senior)

Joshua Hauert

Jacob Hawkins (senior)

Jailene Leyva

Devon Palmer

Robert Pavlik

Alex Romero (senior)

Nathan Sampson (senior)

Mauricio Sandoval

Madeline Shay

Eric Smith

Phoebe Snydersmith

Mark Syrek

Tyler Vogen

Ian Wright

National AP Scholar

Devon Palmer

Phoebe Snydersmith

PSHS

AP Scholars:

Nichol Albright

Estela Alcantara (senior)

Mariance Baylen

Jordyn Blomquist

Alejandro Bravo (senior)

Nicole Christoff

Jennifer Coss

Brandon Dattomo

Jeremy Deanda

Justin-Cian Domacena (senior)

Bryan Endres

Amasil Fahim (senior)

Eric Fleming

Victoria-Jo Gapuz (senior)

Tito Garcia (senior)

Taylor Gerson

Asim Hyder

Maura Johansson (senior)

Arielle Jones

Daniel Kilgore

James Lipinski

Brittany Lower

Elizabeth Lunn

Jessi Machnik

Joseph Marmoll (senior)

Cayla Mims (senior)

Madeleine Monnot

Janis Osif

Franz Pangilinan

Suhaib Qazi

Jonathon Quinones

William Sarkas

Joseph Savino

Kathryn Simpson

William Stowe

Patrick Thomas (senior)

Nathan Ulmer

Kimberly White

Emily Williams

AP Scholar with Honor:

Hannah Alayan

Carolina Arreola (senior)

Anirudh Bhatia

Kylee Borden

Jacob Gleason

Elias Martin (senior)

Kyle Miller

Marissa Walker

AP Scholar with Distinction

Rhome Apton

Konstantinos Dimitroulas (senior)

Liam Dwyer

Mary Ferneau (senior)

Chelsea Hernandez

Alexander Hurtado (senior)

Thomas Mulcahy

Sarah Mullan (senior)

Daniel Muncaster (senior)

Alan Sherrill

Margaret Simmering

Amanda Swanson

Caitlin Yahnke (senior)

National AP Scholar

Amanda Swanson

PNHS

AP Scholars:

Syeda A. Abedi (senior)

Syeda M. Abedi (senior)

Shira Agam (senior)

Elena Argoudelis

Justin Barry (senior)

Olan Bruyere (senior)

Jennifer Burmesch

Anna Byczynski

Alexis Cerrillo (senior)

Chandler Clark (senior)

Schyyler Davis (senior)

Emily Domabyl

Alina Dorion (senior)

Lauren Dvorak

Noah Eheart (senior)

Divya Francis (senior)

Ian Gordon

Matthew Guzik

Ivan Hernandez

Chloe Hildebranski

Frank Klatt

Emily Kubaitis

Angela Licata

Ezra Loeblich

Sreeabhinav Makkena

Senada Mankolli (senior)

Glenn Agape Montero

Cassidy Newberry (senior)

Dylan Orsi (senior)

Megan Pertile

Jack Raddatz (senior)

Justin Rehder (senior)

Madeline Rodriguez

Emily Schroeder (senior)

Aya Sellami

Jacob Smolen

Parker Sonnenberg

Kyle Svara (senior)

Natalie Swanson (senior)

Frank Vido (senior)

Elaine Waita

AP Scholar with Honor:

Emma Anderson

Jay Blake

Samantha Elster

Sarah Holmes

Sean Hopp (senior)

Fides Icalina (senior)

Estelle Jung (senior)

Marianna Kielczewski

Subhan Manzoor (senior)

Nathaniel Martinez (senior)

Alexander Patel (senior)

Ishan Patel (senior)

Alan Peal (senior)

William Popp (senior)

Anneka Sebok (senior)

Varsha Shankar (senior)

Kevin Sitarz (senior)

Zachary Slezak (senior)

Austin Swatek (senior)

Drake Taxon

Shreyas Wardekar

Jessica Whitfield

Allyson Wiacek

Lydia Wilimitis (senior)

AP Scholar with Distinction

Rachel Alessio (senior)

Zahra Ali

Zakary Amen

Miranda Bakker

Vivek Bandapalle

Brian Batinick

Mikayla Buford

Ryan Carlson

Siobhan Conners

Emily Cresta

Matthew Denney

Olivia Fegter

Kevin Ferguson

Michael Gannon (senior)

Haley Grindle

Sarah Hass

Hunter Houslet

Kendall Junger

Elizabeth Kacpura

Riley Keenan

Jacob Krol

James Lang

Rachael Lau

Kelsey Leff

Sierra Lopezalles

Andi Mankolli

Christopher Oberg

Maya Patel

Emily Retuccia

Henry Ridder

Thomas Robey (senior)

Hayden Schennum (senior)

Jack Sebok

Robert Sparks (senior)

Joshua Stadler (senior)

Megan Svara

Emily Terian

Tyler Villa

John Vu (senior)

Nusrat Waris

Paul Wilkens

Emily Williams (senior)

National AP Scholar

Vivek Bandapalle

Brian Batinick

Kevin Ferguson

Hunter Houslet

Kendall Junger

Riley Keenan

Andi Mankolli

Emily Retuccia

Emily Terian

Paul Wilkens

PEHS

AP Scholars:

Chichezum Adibe

Nicholas Bailey (senior)

Jonathon Bratland

Eric Brehmer (senior)

Ashley Brouillard (senior)

Kevin Bryson (senior)

Kylie Burkett

Christian Comillas (senior)

Claire Correll (senior)

Ashley Dzimira (senior)

Ashton Estell

Eduardo Fallad

William Foster (senior)

Megan Fries

Shaniah Gangoso (senior)

Maria Guilfoyle

Conner Hayward (senior)

Stephen Huynh

Georgia Kaminski (senior)

Camille Koch

Shalaka Kollerkandy (senior)

Nathan Lang

Miguel Languidey

Jesse Lopez

Olivia Luca (senior)

Caitlin Maloney

Chelsea Maulsby

Ariana Meewes

Marco Moncada (senior)

Yazmin Noriega

Rene Osinubi

Ivana Owona

Oscar Palacio

August Ramos (senior)

Jasmine Randhawa (senior)

Ethan Rodriguez

Megan Sands

James Sarna

Briannah Smith

Henry Tadla (senior)

Suzanne Vizhalil

Emily Wisneski

Gowtham Yerneni (senior)

AP Scholar with Honor:

Nnekakwo Adibe (senior)

Nabeeha Bakhrani (senior)

Justin Blaney (senior)

Claudia Chirio (senior)

Dominic Culotta (senior)

Kahley Czupek

Kelsey Garbe

Shania Gimenez (senior)

John Hayward

Jane Hoang

Marissa Laporte

Matthew Marchione

Nicole McCarthy

Mikayla Napiwocki

Venessa Paez

Adrian Enriq Reyes (senior)

Nathan Sager

Rachel Walter

Peyton Willingham

AP Scholar with Distinction:

Erika Barrios

Philip Bobrowski

Alexander Clark

Julian Del Rosario (senior)

Abigail Floresca

Syedah Jafary

Apoorva Josyula (senior)

Allison Koeppen

Christopher Kovac

Zachary Krause

Adrian Manjarrez (senior)

Jonathan Marrs

Colleen McCann (senior)

Dina Nashed

Taylor Peebles

Kristin Ruzicka

Taarak Shah

Mohammed Shamsi (senior)

Jake Street (senior)

Alexandra Thill (senior)

Victoria Wisniewski (senior)

National AP Scholar:

Erika Barrios

Alexander Clark

Submitted by Plainfield School District 202