More AP Scholars Named in Johnston County Schools! SMITHFIELD-- Each September, the College Board recognizes high school students who have distinguished themselves academically by announcing AP award recipients. The College Board's Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college courses while still in high school, and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the more than one million high school students in more that 15,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP Exams perform at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar. The following additional schools have announced their AP Scholars: Twelve students at West Johnston High School received AP honors from College Board in recognition of their achievement on college-level Advanced Placement Program Exams. These included 10 students from the Class of 2005, one from the class of 2006 and one from the class of 2007. There are several types of awards for various levels of achievement. The award of AP Scholar is granted to students who receive grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams. Students named as AP Scholars include Katie Lehockey, Meghan Lock, Brandy Sparks, Kristen Stancil, Daniel Tart, Nathan Villaescusa, Nai-Jeer Watson, and Amber Woolsey. Students who achieve average grades of 3.25 or higher on all AP exams or at least a 3 on four or more exams are recognized as AP Scholar with Honor. The Honor Scholars include Robert Langdon and Yong-Min Song. Lesley Hewitt and Joshua Maust were named as AP Scholar with Distinction. Both of these students scored an average of 4 or better on all AP exams attempted. Eighteen SSS students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations with grades of three or higher. The students include: Hinton Armstrong Rachel Barragan Matthew Beamon Brittany Bristol Lindesy Caraballo Callie Collins Juanita Flonard Ashley Green Jacob Johnson Bennett Narron Anna Parrish Amanda Quinn Jane Royal Patricia Ryan Benton Sawrey Robert Scott Stephanie Williams Mary Youngblood Adam Robinson qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of three or higher on five or more of these exams. Two students at North Johnston High School have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement at the college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams. Students took AP Exams in May 2005 after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student's performance on AP exams. Heather Creech, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Creech, Jr. of Kenly, and Ryan Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fitzgerald of Pine Level qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Most of the nation's colleges and universities award credit, advanced placement, or both based on successful performance o the AP Exams. More that 1,400 institutions award a full year's credit (sophomore standing) to students presenting a sufficient number of qualifying grades.
