Windermere Prep Students Achieve Top Scores on National Latin Exam

Windermere Prep Latin Teacher Sandra Enscoe and Ninth Grade National Latin Exam winner JR Verner with his medal and certificate of merit.

Twelve Windermere Prep Upper School students received awards of outstanding merit on the 2006 National Latin Exam (NLE).

Ninth Grader, JR Verner led the WPS students, answering 36 of 40 questions correctly to achieve the Summa Cum Laude Award for top scorers, for which he earned a gold medal and a certificate of merit.

Three Seventh Graders, Jared Hoffman, Scott Stratman and Biana Trifoi received top honor Summa Cum Laude Achievement Awards for answering at least 34 of the 40 questions on their test correctly.

Seventh graders Manha Mohiuddin, Helene Brun, Bradley Prevel, Sumaya Charani, Rachel Gordon, Ashley Bowdoin, Alexandra Boisvert, Usman Mumtaz, and Justin Eng received third place, Magna Cum Laude Achievement Awards for correctly answering at least 30 of the 40 questions.

Offered under the joint sponsorship of' the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League, the NLE is a forty-question, multiple-choice exam which assesses a student’s proficiency in vocabulary, grammar, history, mythology, and culture in Latin I-VI studies. Twenty-seven WPS students were among the over 148,000 students from all fifty states and thirteen foreign countries to participate in this examination.

“The National Latin Exam is considered the most difficult of the standardized examinations in Latin language and culture, with questions on subjects that students may not have even been taught yet,” said WPS Latin teacher Sandra Enscoe. “I am very impressed and proud that so many students were able to achieve the highest awards with so much information to learn. It is a testament to their hard work and diligence to their studies.”