Info Guide2012-13 - St. Scholastica Academy

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
*2011 - Two Semifinalists and two Commended Students
*2010 - Five Finalists with one National Merit Scholarship winner
*2009 - Two Semifinalists
*2008 - One Commended Student
*2007 - One Semifinalist and one Commended Student
*2006 - One National Merit Scholar; one – Finalist, five Commended Students
*2005 - One Semifinalist and one Commended Student
*2004 - One Semifinalist
ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM
2011 - *15 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with scores
of 3 or higher;
*3 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award with Honor by earning an average score of at least
3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams;
*6 students for the AP Scholar Award with Distinction by earning an average score of at least 3.5 on
all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
2010 - *13 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with sores
of 3 or higher;
*9 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award with Honor by earning an average score of at least
3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams;
*3 students, who qualified for the AP Scholar Award with Distinction by earning an average score of
at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
2009 - *One Advanced Placement Scholar with Honor 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 those exams;
*19 Advanced Placement Scholars completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher.
THE GOLDEN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
St. Scholastica Academy received this award from LSU for four consecutive years. It is symbolic of excellence
in education for superior performance at Spring Invitational. This is awarded to the top twenty schools according
to credit hours earned by the students. There are generally about 300 schools represented at testing. LSU
began giving this award over twenty years ago to recognize schools and students for outstanding academic
performance. This award indicates excellence in educational quality of students, school, and faculty.
LIBRARY
The SSA library is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The individual student can
make use of the resources before school, at break, lunch and after school.
Resources include printing services, wireless access for iPads, over 8,000 books, 44 periodical
subscriptions and three on-line databases to which SSA subscribes. The databases are Bloom’s Literary
Criticism, Ebsco, Gale, Masterplots and Worldbook. Passwords are provided for student use of these
databases at home 24/7. Students are also taught how to use their library card to access the on-line
databases of the St. Tammany Parish Public Library system.
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