WCPSS Students Achieve High Scores on AMC-8 Math Exam
March 10, 2006 - Four of the top seven schools taking part in the AMC8 math tests this school year were from the Wake County Public Schools System. Ligon Middle was tops for the third year in a row with a team score of 113 and 73 students score a 15 or better on the 25 point exam. Martin and Lufkin Road middle schools tied for second place with team scores of 107. Martin had 40 students score a 15 or better on the 25-point exam. Lufkin had 25. Carnage Middle finished seventh. Daniels and Davis Drive middle schools finished in a tie for 16th.A number of WCPSS students were at the top of the AMC 8 Honor Roll recognizing the top seventh- and eighth-grade scorers on the exam. Marshal Lochbaum, a Martin Middle seventh-grader, had a perfect score of 25 on the exam. Lochbaum is the only NC student in the past two years to achieve a perfect score on the exam. Patrick Yang, a Ligon eighth grader, scored a 24. Jesse Duan, a Ligon seventh-grader, scored a 23. Eleven WCPSS students scored a 22 including Anand Kannan and Bradley Vohlers of Lufkin Road; Jeff Kochuk of Carnage; Alex Chin of Daniels; Yinxu He, Akhil Jariwala, Joshua Jenkins, Alex Li, Ryan Terpolilli And Nicholas Tobey of Ligon; And Julie Ma of Martin.
A number of WCPSS students were at the top of the AMC 8 Merit Roll recognizing the top sixth-grade scorers on the exam. Ryan Terpolilli and Nicholas Tobey of Ligon Middle had the state's top scores of 22 points on the exam. Nathaniel Holtzman of Ligon tied for second place with a score of 20.
9,324 NC students from 94 NC schools (65 public, 29 private) submitted results on the AMC 8.
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