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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Board recognizes California Standards Test high-scoring students

At last night’s board meeting, the board of education recognized students from throughout the elementary and secondary districts for their outstanding work on the California Standards Test. The California Standards Test is administered annually in the spring. All grades are tested in English language arts and mathematics. Students in grades 5, 8, and 10 are also tested in science and students in grades 8 and 10 are also tested in history.

Superintendent Brian Sarvis introduced the districts’ top scoring students who are either the highest scoring student districtwide at each grade level, or the highest scoring student at each school.

Last year’s second graders, now in third grade:

• Pablo Sela, McKinley School
• Thomas Roth, Roosevelt School
• Diego Perez, Washington School

Last year’s third graders, now in fourth grade:

• Alaina Murphy, Home School Santa Barbara
• Simon Parker, Adams School
• Anthony Luna Velez, Harding School

Last year’s fourth graders, now in fifth grade:

• Juan Zarate, Cleveland School
• Rafael Saavedra, Monroe School
• Madeleine Lazarovits, Santa Barbara Community Academy

Last year’s fifth graders, now in sixth grade:

• Irving Soto, Franklin School
• Nicholas Katzer, Washington School

Last year’s top sixth grader, now in seventh grade:

• Andrew Yang, Open Alternative School (now at Goleta Valley Junior High)

Last year’s seventh graders, now in eighth grade:

• Alida Siegel, Santa Barbara Junior High
• Dolan Ingraham, La Cumbre Junior High

Last year’s eighth graders, now in ninth grade:

• Helen Yang, La Cumbre Junior High (now at Dos Pueblos High School)
• Eugene Cho, Goleta Valley Junior High (now at Dos Pueblos High)
• Brenna Hensley, La Colina Junior High (now at Dos Pueblos High)

Last year’s top ninth grader, now in tenth grade:

• Vy Luan Huynh, Dos Pueblos High

Last year’s top tenth grader, now in eleventh grade:

• Richard Cheng, Dos Pueblos High

Last year’s eleventh graders, now seniors:

• John Vance, San Marcos High
• Rebecca Neilsen-Robbins, Santa Barbara High