The Oakridge School is proud to announce that 55 students earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level 2017 Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams.
Students took AP Exams in May 2017 after completing challenging college-level courses in the Upper School. Of this year’s award recipients, 18 were juniors when they took their AP Exams. These students have at least one more year to complete college-level work and possibly earn another AP Scholar Award. The following is a summary of awards earned by Oakridge students and recent graduates.
National AP Scholar
Earned an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale on all AP Exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams
- Evan Skinner ’17
- Mark Wright ’17
- Amy Zhang ’17
AP Scholar with Distinction
Earned an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams
- Grace Andersen ’17
- Julianne Carroll ’17
- Sicheng Chen ’17
- Noah Gladden ’17
- Liang Li ’17
- David Lonergan ’17
- Adrian Luong ’18
- Logan Muzyka ’17
- Alexa Pressley ’17
- Neil Ray ’17
- Amaar Shah ’18
- Funmilola Solano ’18
- Ransom Swinney ’18
- Rachel Tan ’18
- Ryan Tan ’17
- Chunyu Tang ’18
- Brayden Toulouse ’17
- Jeff Wright ’18
- Yu Zhang ’17
- Junyu Zheng ’17
AP Scholar with Honor
Earned an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four of more of these exams
- Zane Ahlfinger ’18
- Danielle Bowling ’17
- Michael Cendrick ’17
- John Emmert ’17
- Matthew Grady ’17
- Trevor Hall ’17
- Carlos Johnson ’18
- Dustin Leenhouts ’17
- Katrina Novak ’17
- Avery Pennywell ’18
- Yichen Shen ’18
AP Scholar
Completed three or more AP Examinations with grades of 3 or higher
- Anna Broadus ’17
- Caroline Broadus ’17
- Grace Burnett ’17
- Willie Chew ’17
- Harrison Conn ’17
- Michael Fong-Kutchins ’18
- Jess Ford ’17
- Allegra Frank ’17
- Aryn Franklin ’17
- Trent Hall ’17
- Brock Knott ’17
- Christopher LaRovere ’18
- William Meshack III ’17
- Katherine Nelson ’18
- Janak Patal ’17
- Ravi Patel ’18
- Nicholas Pham ’17
- Luis Ramirez Rascon ’18
- John-Phillip Sims ’18
- Daqiang Zhang ’17
- Yichen Zhu ’17
Oakridge juniors Austin Foster and Olivia McLean have been recognized as Mr. Texan/Ms. Texanne for the month of September by the Breakfast Optimist Club of East Fort Worth.
Two members of the Oakridge Class of 2018 have been named a National Merit Semifinalist: Adrian Luong and Funmi Solano.
Ashley Read, Oakridge Alumna and Fourth Grade Teacher, is the featured blogger on the Fort Worth Moms Blog this week discussing Children and the Lost Art of Public Speaking.
Author Sarah Weeks will visit The Oakridge School on Monday, October 30 for presentations with students in grades 1-6. Sarah Weeks is the award winning author of over thirty children's books. Oakridge fifth and sixth graders read Save Me a Seat this summer, a novel Mrs. Weeks coauthored with Gita Varadarajan.
The Early Childhood Center would like to invite you to the next PARENT 2 PARENT PROGRAM, "Teaching Children to Care". Learning to empathize is a skill just like learning to read or how to build something, it has to be taught. But how do parents teach empathy in a world that seems uncaring? This session, led by The Parenting Center, is designed to increase parents' understanding of the concept of empathy and how to develop it in their children. Please join us Friday, November 17 in the Quinn Family Kindergarten Center multi-purpose room from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon. 