The Saint Thomas Academy administration is proud to announce that 13.4% of the Class of 2010 earned the designation of Finalist, Semifinalist or Commended Student in the National Merit Program.

More than 1.5 million high school juniors in the nation entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school students, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. Commended Students, which represents the top five percent of U.S. high school seniors, is also made up of the highest scoring entrants in each state.

National Merit Scholarship recipients of 2010 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April 2010 and concluding in July.

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Cadet Awards

Every May administrators and faculty present awards to students at an all-school assembly. These awards include All-State Athletic letters, Fine Arts awards, National Language awards, and the Christian Service Award.

Complete List of the 2008-09 Awards [pdf]

Academic Awards

Eagle and Torch Award

Students who have an annual cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.67 or better are awarded the Eagle Award. The Eagle Award ceremony takes place by invitation in September or October and recognizes students for the previous year’s work. The cumulative GPA for four quarters is used to compute the Eagle Award for seniors who receive their final Eagle Award at a dinner reception. All senior Eagle Award and Torch Award recipients are recognized at graduation.

Students who have an annual cumulative GPA of 3.33-3.66 receive the Torch Award. The Torch Award is distributed at Formation.

Senior Academic Award Recipients:

2008-09 Senior Eagle Award Recipients [pdf]

2008-09 Senior Torch Award Recipients [pdf]

Underclassmen Eagle and Torch Awards Recipients:
These awards were presented on September 28 and 29, 2009. The awards were presented for academic performance during the 2008-09 school year; the students are listed under their current grade level (2009-10 year).

2008-09 Eagle Award Recipients [pdf]

2008-09 Torch Award Recipients [pdf]

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High Honor Roll and Honor Roll

At the end of each semester, semester grades are used to compute the High Honor Roll and the Honor Roll. Students with a GPA of 3.67 or better are on the High Honor Roll and students with a GPA of 3.33-3.66 are on the Honor Roll.

2009-10 Semester One High Honor Roll [pdf]

2009-10 Semester One Honor Roll [pdf]

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Advanced Placement Exams Scholars

Forty-six Saint Thomas Academy students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) Exams. Approximately 18% of the 1.7 million students worldwide who took the AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.

Students took AP Exams in May 2009, after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students’ performance on AP Exams.

AP Scholars with Distinction received an average grade of at least 3.5 (out of 5) on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Saint Thomas Academy AP Scholars with Distinction are Nicholas Bieter, Jack Butler, Michael Diaz, Michael Farley, Timothy FitzPatrick, Andrew Housh, Matthew Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Knoedler, Connor Lane, Brennan Lee, Robert Litwin, Patrick MacGregor, Thomas Mealey, Robert Muellerleile and John Nye [all Class of 2009].

AP Scholars with Honor received an average grade of at least 3.25 (out of 5) on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Saint Thomas Academy AP Scholars with Honor are Matthew Houle, Jeffrey Juul, John Kempainen, Alex Kies, Owen Rickey, Ryan Robinson and Anthony Stoeri. [All Class of 2009]

AP Scholars received grades of 3 (out of 5) or higher on three or more AP Exams. Saint Thomas Academy Scholars are David Allender, Andrew Ayotte, E. Badar '10, John Bellomo, Alexander Braddock, Andrew Dorle, Brennan Earley, J. Garry '10, Matthew Hipple, Drew Korte, William Kvas, Logan Marks, Nicholas McHenry, Jeffrey Merriam, Elliott Mitchem, Nicholas Pennell, Michael Ratelle, M. Riehm '10, W. Rock '10, Adam Rohde, John Schneeman, Woodrow Stensland and Michael Wyatt.  [All Class of 2009 unless noted]

ACT and SAT Test Scores

We are proud to announce that Saint Thomas Academy students performed
better than national averages for the ACT and SAT tests.