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14 Port Chester HS Students Earn AP Scholar Honors

Port Chester High School offers 11 Advanced Placement courses to juniors and seniors.

Fourteen students and June graduates have earned AP Scholar Awards from the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams through June 2012, according to Mitchell Combs, Port Chester High School principal.

Three Port Chester High School graduates (Class of 2012) were named AP Scholar with Distinction, having scored 3 or higher on five or more AP exams with an average test score of at least 3.5.  They are Juan Guerra, Christian Mora and Artur Szerejko. 

Three Port Chester High School graduates (Class of 2012) and eight current 12th grade students were named as AP Scholars.  To earn this distinction, each student received grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams.  These students are: Caitlyn Celestino, Anne Marie Esposito, Jillian Ferretti, Eduardo Gonzalez, Jason Ippolito, Anika Krause, Jenny Maldonado (2012), Nicolle Mendoza (2012), Lukas Patrizio, Lisseth Torres (2012) and Astrid Vargas-Hernandez. 

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In addition, three members of the PCHS Class of 2012 were named AP Scholar with Distinction, having taken five or more AP exams with an average of at least 3.5 and all scores above a 3.  They are: Juan Guerra, Christian Mora and Artur Szerejko.

Port Chester High School currently offers 11 Advanced Placement courses to juniors and seniors. 

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The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.  About 18 percent of the 1.7 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently higher level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.


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