District 211 Students Perfect on ACT
updated: 02-15-2013
At its September 13, 2012 meeting, the Board of Education honored four District 211 students for achieving a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the ACT exam. These students included Soumik Biswas, Fremd High School; Fiona Helgren, Fremd High School; Nikita Pillai, Conant High School; and Jack Riedy, Palatine High School.
At the November 8, 2012 meeting, the Board recognized Fremd High School student Benjamin Lewis for earning a 36 on the ACT exam.
At its January 17, 2013 meeting, the Board recognized Fremd High School students Mazin Bokhari and Yuki Koike, each for scoring a 36 on the ACT exam.
At the February 14, 2013 meeting, the Board honored Fremd High School student Robert Andrews for earning a 36 on the ACT exam.
The ACT, which is taken by nearly 60 percent of America's college-bound students as well as all junior students in Illinois as part of the Prairie State Achievement Examination, is comprised of tests in English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning. Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student's score is the average of the four tests. More than 1.7 million students took the ACT last year, with only 781 recording a score of 36 on the exam. Since 1998, 51 District 211 students have achieved a score of 36 on the ACT exam, including five students who have done it more than once.
Below is a history of High School District 211's ACT scores of 36:
| High School District 211 ACT Scores of 36 (April 1998 – September 2012) |
| Student (High School) |
ACT Exam Date |
| Kirk Smiley (Fremd High School) |
April 1998 |
| Vagish Hemmige (Fremd High School) |
June 1998 |
| Brian Fimoff (Fremd High School) |
January 1999 |
| Jennifer Cutts (Hoffman Estates High School) |
September 1999 |
| Ryan Spalding (Fremd High School) |
October 2000 |
| Qiming Wu (Fremd High School) |
August 2001 |
| Joseph Calvey (Hoffman Estates High School) |
August 2001 |
| Kristin Schmitt (Fremd High School) |
May 2002 |
| Parag Gupta (Fremd High School) |
February 2003 and November 2003 |
| Jessica Morton (Conant High School) |
March 2003 |
| Chenyu Feng (Fremd High School) |
November 2004 |
| Andrew Wilson (Fremd High School) |
April 2005 |
| Alyssa Ceretti (Schaumburg High School) |
April 2006 |
| Amy Gill (Hoffman Estates High School) |
April 2006 |
| Jaclyn Woodruff (Palatine High School) |
April 2006 |
| Victoria Hewitt (Fremd High School) |
June 2006 |
| Rohan Sahasrabudhe (Schaumburg High School) |
June 2006 |
| Suzanne Birner (Palatine High School) |
April 2007 |
| Matthew Kirby (Fremd High School) |
April 2007 |
| Kyle Shymanik (Palatine High School) |
April 2007* |
| Jared Bauman (Conant High School) |
April 2008 |
| Michelle Lundholm (Fremd High School) |
April 2008 |
| Sahana Rao (Fremd High School) |
April 2008 |
| Amanda Rooney (Schaumburg High School) |
April 2008 |
James Silveira (Palatine High School)
|
April 2008 |
| Emily Van Der Bleek (Schaumburg High School) |
October 2008 |
| Sarah Gallo (Fremd High School) |
April 2009* |
| Kathryn Hasz (Schaumburg High School) |
April 2009* |
| John Kaczor (Fremd High School) |
June 2009 |
| Paul Organ (Hoffman Estates High School) |
April 2009 |
| Ekamjeet Dhillon (Palatine High School) |
September 2009 |
Alwina Liu (Fremd High School)
|
April 2010 |
| Rosako Wagner (Fremd High School) |
April 2010 |
| Boqing Xu (Fremd High School) |
April 2010 |
| Mitchell Zielinski (Palatine High School) |
April 2010 |
| Nikhil Byanna (Conant High School) |
September 2010 |
| Emily Liquin (Palatine High School) |
February 2011 |
| Mengran Liu (Hoffman Estates High School) |
February 2011 and April 2011 |
| Scott Kirkwood (Fremd High School) |
April 2011 |
| Jackson Mitzner (Fremd High School) |
April 2011 |
| William Shih (Fremd High School) |
April 2011 |
| Ryan Erdman (Palatine High School) |
June 2011 |
| Andrew Song (Fremd High School) |
June 2011 |
| Fiona Helgren, Fremd High School |
April 2012 |
| Jack Riedy, Palatine High School |
April 2012 |
| Soumik Biswas, Fremd High |
June 2012 |
| Nikita Pillai, Conant High School |
June 2012 |
| Benjamin Lewis, Fremd High School |
September 2012 |
| Mazin Bokhari |
October 2012 |
| Yuki Koike |
October 2012 |
*-once as part of PSAE, once on national test date
