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Spanish Language Students Earn 20 Medals and 2 Perfect Scores on National Spanish Exam

Ranney Middle and Upper School Spanish Language students have matched their French language peers in rankings on the recent national world language exams. In fact, eighth graders Vicky Tager-Geffner and Alessandra Arege scored a perfect 100% on the listening and reading comprehension section of the test. They are the first Middle School students in 12 years to receive this special distinction!

Congratulations to all of the following students for earning top percentages and honors in the Spanish language contest, which measures listening and reading comprehension as well as vocabulary and grammar.
 
Upper School
  • Gold: Jacob Egol (earned a 99% exam score!), Lindsey Maher, Audrey Meyers and Fabio Tessiore
  • Silver: Joseph Strizhak and Alexandra Venero
  • Bronze: Jacob Field, Shayna Field and Allison Sobieski
  • Honorable Mentions: Salma Abdelbarry, Isabella Arege, Jack DeNicola, Luke Denver-Moore, Rylan Foy, Matt Hamelsky, Liz Hsu, Ava Jacoby, Ben Kraushaar, Rebekah Lo, Samantha Maris, Himani Nayyar, Aaryan Raval, Jared Rush, Maggie Rustico, Emily Sallustio, Varun Sikand and Brandan Whiteman
  
Middle School
Ranney’s eighth-grade Spanish Language students took the Level 1 exam, which is equivalent to the first year of high school language study.
  • Gold: Alessandra Arege
  • Silver: Natalie Gualario, Victoria Gualario, Katie Peardon and Victoria Tager-Geffner
  • Bronze: Lilly Blumenkrantz,   Mira Casriel, Seth Marx, Aidan Smires, Gabby Thompson and Anthony Virone
  • Honorable Mentions: Caroline Casucci, Alexis Karlin, Matt Padavano, Arjun Sobti, Rahul Sobti, Sebastian Trujillo,  Shrish Vaidyaselvan, Derek Vastola, Corri Villany,  Dani Warren, Adam Weiss and Jenna Wilen
More than 75% of the 30 Ranney eighth graders who took the exam placed in the top half in the nation.

Ranney students also recently ranked nationally in the national French language exam (see related story).
 
“These exams are excellent benchmarks that support our curricular work from Age 3 through Grade 12,” says World Languages Department Chair Margharita Reiter. “We are proud to offer French, Mandarin and Spanish from Early Childhood through 12th grade, providing our students with many opportunities to learn, improve, master and use their languages on a daily basis. Our teachers teach by example, modeling the language throughout every class period and providing regular opportunities for teacher-to-student and student-to-student dialogue.  As our students progress through their studies of the second language—which they elect in second grade after several years of introductions to all three languages—their skills show great improvement and they continue to move on to higher levels, all the way to Honors and Advanced Placement language classes in the Upper School. Through professional development, our language teachers are continually improving their strategies in the presentation of new material and working to prepare our students to become global citizens through their study of a second language.” 
 
Learn more about Ranney’s World Languages program, which also includes Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, beginning in our Early Childhood Education program. 
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