St. Joe’s students qualify as Hopkins candidates

NEWTON — Fifty-five students (45 percent of the student population in grades 2 through 7) from St. Joseph Regional School in Newton qualified as Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth candidates due to superior achievement on the 2012 Terra Nova test.

To qualify for Johns Hopkins consideration, a student must be in the 95 through 99 percentile (the top 5 percent nationally) in one of six fields in a nationally normed standardized test.

The qualifying students can now sit for a second exam, and should they perform sufficiently on the second test, they would qualify to take courses sponsored by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. The purpose of the Talent Search is to identify, assess, and recognize the academic abilities of highly capable students.

Students who qualify in the seventh and eighth grades can register thru CTY to take the College Board SAT or the ACT, the same test given to juniors and seniors in high school. Students in eighth grade now attend Pope John XXIII High School or return to their sending district for eighth grade. Four students qualified for the SAT in the 7 grade including Grace Young, Michael Maslowski, Matthew Malvey, and Matthew Emering.

Students who qualify in the second through sixth grades can register to take the School and College Ability Test or SCAT. Five students qualified sixth grade including Martha Sengor, Bridget O’Keefe, Alexis Lee, Matthew Hanifan and Michael Pacholarz.

Seven students qualified in fifth grade including Lucy Campbell, Grace Forrey, Jessica Kiederling, Charles Lauzon, Dylan Sabatino, Jakob Todaro, and Garrett Young.

Seventeen students qualified in the fourth grade including Paige Kutyla, Mia Lauzon, Mary Murphy, Nora O’Keefe, Amalia Scripsick, Carson Jean Sullivan, Brett Williams, Louis Ruggerio, Brian O’Connor, Justin Newell, Nicholas Moore, Aaron Martin, Jesse Griner, Brendan Donlon, Peter Cofrancesco, Tucker Austin and Connor Alicks.

Eight students qualified in the third grade including Lucy Barton, Veronica Cordero, Caroline Insinga, Sarah Miller, Jacob Pacholarz, Christopher Kiederling, Sydney Giroux, and Luke Brazzano.

Fourteen students qualified in the second grade including Finn Austin, Evelynn Austin, Emma Cofrancesco, Lauren Cordero, James Detwiller, Liam Forrey, Eliot Griner, Emma Maslowski, Matthew O’Hare, Theresa Ruggerio, Amelia Sabatino, Shane Smith, Rutger Vitez, and Michael Zukowski.