Lexington-Richland School District Five is recognizing dozens of students for achieving high scores on the PSAT and SAT examinations. The highest score possible on the PSAT is 1520, and the highest score possible on the SAT is 1600.
For recognition purposes the district uses the PSAT scores for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students. The test was administered in October 2022 to students. These scores are the total of both Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and Math sections. The following students earned the top total scores for their school: Brayden Berner, Leeton Brown, Damien Dedmond, Aaron Parr, and Kathryn Stover (Chapin High), Caroline Huang, Darwin Newman-Norlund, John Shelley, William Wang, Kaiyuan Xue, and Andy Yang (Dutch Fork High), David Floyd, Margaret Hamberg, Gaines Roberts and Daniel Wolff (Irmo High), James Edwards, Ryan Riddle and Saina Srivastava (Spring Hill High).
The district also recognizes any student for achieving a perfect score on either of the two sections of the PSAT test. Those sections are Evidenced-Based Reading and Writing, and Math. The following students scored a perfect score on the Math portion: Caroline Huang, Darwin Newman-Norlund, Leo Sun, William Wang and Andy Yang (Dutch Fork High).
The following students earned the top total scores for their school on the SAT test. These scores are the total of both Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and Math sections from their Freshman year through December 31st of their Senior year: McKinley Goodwin, Anna Hodges, Drayton Privette, and Carlynn Rychener (Chapin High), Drew Dabe, Ebonee Davis, Sakyo Maeda and Pooja Saji (Dutch Fork High), Elisabeth Hall, Siiri Hamberg and Joseph Hodges (Irmo High), Saanvi Cherukumalli, James Holliday and Armaan Verma (Spring Hill High)
The district also recognizes any student for achieving a perfect score on either of the two sections of the SAT test. Those sections are Evidenced-Based Reading and Writing, and Math. The following students scored a perfect score on the Math portion: Carlynn Rychener (Chapin High), Pooja Saji (Dutch Fork High) and Joseph Hodges (Irmo High). Audrey Reichart (Chapin High) received a perfect score on the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing portion of the exam.
“We are proud of the hard work of our outstanding students from each of our high schools in School District Five, said Chief of Academics and Administration Anna Miller. “We join with the families and our Academic Assessment Coaches across the district in celebrating our students and their academic achievement.”