Ocean City Honors Students With Perfect Scores on NJ ASK Tests

With four to five days of state standardized testing scheduled for April and May, the Ocean City Board of Education paused Wednesday to recognize students who received perfect scores on last year's New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) tests.

The NJ ASK tests are long and extensive assessments of language arts and math given to all New Jersey students in grades 3 to 8. Students in grades 4 and 8 are also tested in science.

"These students scored perfectly," Superintendent Kathleen Taylor said. "That's amazing."

The following students received perfect scores on at least one section of the NJ ASK. The majority were perfect in math—with several fourth- and eighth-graders acing science. Achieving a perfect score in language arts is generally considered harder because of subjective writing portions of the test.

Fourth-graders (who took the test last year in third grade)

• Gannon Brady
• Isaac Eberly
• Marissa Guido
• Max Kelly
• Tommy Piernikowski
• Sean Walsh
• Louis Williams

Fifth-graders (who took the test last year in fourth grade)

• Jessica Davidson
• Michael Doliszny
• Nora Faverzani (the only O.C. student to get perfect scores on two sections—math and science) 
• Gabriel Griffin
• Garrett Longstaff 
• Aidan Perry
• Aiden Raheb
• Scotty Robel
• Andrea Teofanova
• Allisun Wiltshire

Sixth-graders (who took the test last year in fifth grade)

• Jackson Sullivan
• Marian Wisham
• Sean Zellers 

Seventh-graders (who took the test last year in sixth grade)

• Austin Fox
• Sarah Lucey

Eighth-graders (who took the test last year in seventh grade)

• Nikolas Eisele
• Julianna Kemenosh
• Olivia Mack (the only O.C. student to get a perfect score on language arts) 
• Sophia Talese
• Kevin Yang
• Seona Boyle