District 211 Students Perfect on ACT
At its September 24, 2009 meeting, the Board of Education honored four District 211 students for achieving a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the ACT examination. Sarah Gallo and John Kaczor from William Fremd High School, Kathryn Hasz from Schaumburg High School, and Paul Organ from Hoffman Estates High School were recognized as four of less than 75 students in Illinois to receive a 36 on the ACT during the 2008-2009 school year.
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. In the spring of 2009, 1.4 million students took the ACT exam, with less than one-tenth of 1% achieving a score of 36.
Below is a history of High School District 211's ACT scores of 36:
| High School District 211 ACT Scores of 36 (April 1998 – June 2008) |
| 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)
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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 2098 |
*-once as part of PSAE, once on national test date
