Three students from Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford have been named National AP Scholars.

Submitted by Jackie Pisani, Kingswood Oxford School

The College Board has named 62 Kingswood Oxford students as AP Scholars for 2019, based on their exceptional achievement on the Advanced Placement exams they took in May 2019.

The group included three National AP Scholars, Ananya Alleyne ’19 of West Hartford; Yaxin Qi ’19 of Beijing, China; and Benjamin Small ’19 of West Hartford.

Kingswood Oxford also had 25 AP Scholars with Distinction; 11 AP Scholars with Honor; and 26 AP Scholars. The average exam score for all KO’s AP Scholars was 4.18.

According to The College Board, the AP Scholar designations are defined as follows:

• National AP Scholar:Students who receive an average of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams;
• AP Scholar with Distinction:Students who receive an average of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams; •
• AP Scholar with Honor:  Students who receive an average of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and 3 or higher on four or more of these exams; and
• AP Scholar: Students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.

Students from Kingswood Oxford who have been recognized include:

National AP Scholars

Ananya Alleyne ’19 – West Hartford

Yaxin Qi ’19 – Beijing, China

Benjamin Small ’19 – West Hartford

AP Scholars with Distinction

Ananya Alleyne ’19 – West Hartford

Michael Autorino ’19 – Glastonbury

Brigid Bernier ’19 – Manchester

Thomas Betts ’19 – Wethersfield

Erin Bowen ’19 – Marlborough

Rabih Chughtai ’19 – Farmington

Charles Coxon ’19 – Glastonbury

Olivia Coxon ’19 – Glastonbury

Ruize Gao ’19 – Beijing, China

Eryk Jones ’19 – West Hartford

Esha Kataria ’20 – Ellington

Tong Lei ’19 – Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, China

Josh Leshem ’19 – West Hartford

Hailin Lu ’19 – Beijing, China

Jason Meizels ’19 – West Hartford

Amy Mistri ’19 – South Windsor

Claudia Petrie ’19 – Madison

Yaxin Qi ’19 – Beijing, China

Mia Seymour ’19 – West Hartford

Janvi Sikand ’19 – South Windsor

Benjamin Small ’19 – West Hartford

Shuze Wan ’19 – Tianjin, China

Xiaohua Wang ’20 – Weifang, China

Chang Yuan ’19 – Shenzhen, China

Ziqian Zhao ’19 – Shaoxing, China

AP Scholars with Honor

Calvin Beck ’19 – Tolland

Alma Clark ’20 – Windsor

Huaxu Dan ’21 – Xiamen, China

Zixuan Gao ’19 – Harbing, China

Elise Gendrich ’19 – Middletown

Yifei Hu ’19

Kush Kataria ’20 – Ellington

Vishal Kumar ’20 – Unionville

John McLaughlin ’20 – Plantsville

Ryan Peterson ’19 – Tolland

Garth Swanson ’19 – Farmington

AP Scholars

James Amenta ’19 – Glastonbury

Michael Aronson ’19 – Farmington

Kevin Boley ’19 – Glastonbury

Aiden Borruso ’20 – Coventry

Daniel Carroll ’19 – Avon

Jack Cavo ’19 – West Hartford

Jon Fu ’19 – Unionville

Talitha Holombe ’19 – West Hartford

Benjamin Iozzo ’20 – Bristol

Harris Jacobson ’19 – Simsbury

Coltrane Joseph ’19 – West Hartford

Luv Kataria ’20 – Ellington

Matthew Marottolo ’20 – Wethersfield

Alison Meizels ’19 – West Hartford

Taline Norsigian ’19 – Wethersfield

Benjamin Poulios ’19 – Colchester

Yusuf Rashid ’20 – Cheshire

Isabelle Raymond ’19 – Wethersfield

Matthew Safalow ’19 – Rocky Hill

Spencer Schaller ’20 – Avon

Aidan Shea ’19 – West Hartford

Esha Shrivastav ’20 – Ellington

Adam Sonntag ’19 – West Hartford

Nicholas Traver ’20 – Glastonbury

Qianyun Wang ’20 – Beijing, China

Yuxin Zhang ’21 – Shenzhen, China

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