Congratulations to eight Fort Zumwalt seniors for their outstanding academic accomplishments.
East High’s Thomas Bambrick and Noah Myers; North High’s Caroline Corr and Isaac Thorn; South High’s Twisha Nadella and Nicholas Stovall and West High’s Ella Baetje and Surya Sompalli have been named to the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals Missouri Scholars 100.
The selection is based primarily on a formula using the student’s grade point average and ACT or SAT score. Each student nominated had to first meet criteria of an “Academic Decathlon,” which included 10 “events” designed to assure the academic strength of the student. To meet the decathlon requirements, the student must have a minimum GPA of 3.750, a minimum ACT score of 29 or a minimum SAT score of 1,600, be ranked in the upper 10 percent of the class, and have taken upper level courses in mathematics, science, English, and foreign language. The student must also have excellent attendance, be an exemplary school citizen, and be involved in the school activity program.
The Missouri Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) and Distinguished Missouri Seal of Biliteracy are awarded to graduating high school students in districts with a program approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. These students have demonstrated achievement in English (as measured through coursework and standardized test scores), a language other than English (as measured through the STAMP4s or ACCESS tests), and sociocultural competence (as measured through an essay response to a prompt). All Missouri students studying any of the world’s languages are potential SoBL candidates. Congratulations to the following members of the Fort Zumwalt Class of 2022, who earned The Missouri Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) and Distinguished Missouri Seal of Biliteracy. (Asterisk denotes Class of 2023.)
East High, French
Daniela Amaya-Gonzalez
Thomas Bambrick
Paige Morgan
Ashley Oviedo
Ashleigh Porter
Samantha Schoo
Sophia Schoo
Hannah Stebe
East High, German
Noah Myers
East High, Spanish
Daniela Amaya-Gonzalez- Distinguished
Sophia Artz*
Connor Browns
Camille Dutt*
Victoria Ferguson*
Kyle Gremaud*
Mia Jauregui*
Lillian McNeely
Jackson Parrack
Abigail Sanders
Khushi Shah*
Julia Vitale*
Alexander Wilding
North High, French
Caroline Corr
Natalie George
Sydney Kelsey
North High, German
Sullivan Gleason
North High, Spanish
Eduardo Avalos Vallejo*
Joshua Bauer
Parina Desai
Isabella Ortiz-Acosta
Hope Wheeler*
Caitlin White
South High, French
Kyla Bethel
Grace Boyer
Laci Burroughs
Chloe Dunivan
Sophia Hanna
Elaine Rogers
Nicholas Stovall
Sophia Ung
Nicole Voss
Emily Watson
Leo Wright
South High, Spanish
Cassidy Avery
Jacob Beiter
Diane Fuentes
Colin Wilson
West High, Arabic
Razan Khalili
West High, French
Abby Gill
Claire Myers
West High, German
Lucas Ludwig
West High, Hindi
Purvi Jena
West High, Spanish
Anna Arms
Ella Baetje
Jameson Enriquez
Karen Gonzalez-Garcia
Christina Guyre
Emily Heredia
Judith Herrera
Jaden Kaemmerer
Emily Macias - Distinguished
Ashlyn Pierangeli
Kenya Ruelas*
Alejandra Sanchez - Distinguished
Joseph Serio
Angelo Vargas
West High, Tamil
Lakshita Senthil* - Distinguished
Pranav Palaniappan* - Distinguished
West High, Vietnamese
Hahn Le
Congratulations to Fort Zumwalt School District’s 2022 National Merit Scholarship Finalists. These 11 Fort Zumwalt seniors are among the top scorers on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) taken by more than 1 million high school juniors at more than 22,000 high schools across the nation. They represent less than 1 percent of high school students and are among roughly 8,000 seniors across the nation to share in roughly $35 million in scholarships. Fort Zumwalt’s National Merit Finalists are:
East High: Thomas Bambrick
North High: Spencer Steinmeyer
South High: Twisha Nadella, Kaelen Raible and Nick Stovall
West High: Ella Baetje, Saanvi Gowda, Maxwell Hardcastle, Adam Mulvey, Claire Myers and Surya Sompalli
Fort Zumwalt also congratulates 12 students recognized as National Merit Commended Scholars. Only about 34,000 students in the nation are recognized in this manner for their exceptional academic promise. This places these four phenomenal students in the top 2-3% of the more than 1 million students nationwide who took the 2020 PSAT/NMSQT. Fort Zumwalt’s National Merit Commended Scholars are:
East: Noah Myers
North: Caroline Corr, Sullivan Gleason, Tyler Hood and Elsa Linson.
South: Grace Boyer, Karthik Digavalli, Leo Wright
West: Lauren Higgins, Aiden Rohrbach, Jadyn Sanderson, and Vincent Vo