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News-Sun photo by CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY Rilian Smith, a 3rd grader at Woodlawn Elememtary School (left), and Felicity Velez, a 4th grader at Sun 'N Lake Elementary School both achieved perfect scores on the FCAT. Rilian for math, Felicity for math and reading.

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published: Friday, September 07, 2012

77 students honored for perfect FCAT scores

By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY

christopher.tuffley@newssun.com

SEBRING -- Seventy-seven Highlands County elementary students achieved perfect scores on the 2011 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Of the perfect scores, 34 were on the reading test; 34 on the math test, five on the writing test and three on the science test.

Ten students made perfect scores in two subjects and one student, Vaidehi Persad a fourth grader at Sun 'N Lake Elementary. was perfect in all in three. At least one student in every elementary school had at least one perfect score. Lake Placid Elementary School had the most perfect FCAT students with 14. Sun 'N Lake Elementary School had 12.

In front of a packed audience at the school board chambers Tuesday night, Becky Fleck, assistant superintendent for curriculum, and Joyce McClelland, director of elementary education, handed out the medals.

There was never any question, Fleck said -- no matter how tight the budget became -- but that the district would find the funds to purchase medals for the students.

"These kids rose to the top," she said, "even with a more difficult test."

McClelland beamed at the standing room only crowd. "Thank you for making it a priority to be here tonight," she said to the parents and families. "This is truly a celebration.

Perfect FCAT scorers:


Avon Elementary
Francis Espiritu, Dalila Eugenio-Badillo, Torielle Filer, Iris Negley, and Brianna Nobles

Cracker Trail
Hanna Allison, Jalenah Darby, Jacob Gauger, Kenneth High, Jayden Lee, Gavin Pyle, Lauren Swaine, and Joseph Torres
    
Fred Wild
Angelica Bustos, Mauricio Marquez, Gabriel Torres, and Zachary Youlden
     
Lake Placid
Nicole Blount, Adam Canaday, Michael Edgemon, Jazsmin Ganaban, Carl Gross, Luke Halpern, Chase LeBlanc, Logan Million, Arieli Montalvo, Claire Phypers, Tyler Sassin, Madeline Whitney, Payton Wright, and Brendan Zion
  
Lake Country
Halie Montano

Memorial
Kobe Labra, Jenna Murphy, Ceyarah Veasey, and Amelia Zhandossova

Park
Nathan Ahrens, Sam Chen, Hailey Hood, Sydney Johnson, Jose Lugo-Sanchez, Madison Murfield, Jacob O’Neil, and Hayden Tyler
    
Sun ’N Lake 
Alyssa Bonilla, Vinay Krishnadas, Dhruv Manik, Robert Matos, Nikole Martinez, Rohin Patel, Vaidehi Persad, Nicholas Piccione, Paolo Pineda, Phil Pineda, Felicity Velez, and Harbor Young
 
Woodlawn
James Branca, Emily Bible, Robert Gotkiewicz, Andrew Livingston, Ramiro Palacios, Sebastian Rivera, Rilian Smith, Michael Williams, and Nancy Zuniga