Academic Accomplishments
2024 CALENDAR YEAR
NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
Son of Anayansi & Shawn Konrad
Attended Stuart Hall School for Boys
Son of Christine & Sean Connolly Attended Isidore Newman School & Trinity Episcopal School
Son of Emy Rome & Leo Bacerra Attended Christian Brothers School
Son of Jessica & Scott Becker Attended Christian Brothers School & Hynes Charter School
Son of Amy & Marc Cavallino Attended Christian Brothers School
Son of Jane DiLeo & Leo Congeni Attended Stuart Hall School for Boys
Son of Helen & Brian Fish
Attended St. Catherine of Siena School
Son of Monica & Keith Darcey
Attended Christian Brothers School & St. Philip Neri School
Son of Karen & William Degenhart Attended J.B. Martin Middle School & Boerne Middle School South
Son of Konnie & Kurt Duncan Attended Christian Brothers School & St. Catherine of Siena School
Son of Louise & David Esola Attended Stuart Hall School for Boys & Ysabel Barnett Elementary School
Son of
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Son of Yvette & Gregory LaCour Attended Christian Brothers School
Son of Angela & Timothy Flynn
Attended Christian Brothers School & St. Rita Catholic School
Son of Karen & Sean Harper Attended Christian Brothers School & St. Catherine of Siena School
Son of Laurie & Billy Jennings Attended Metairie Park Country Day School
LENOX BACERRA ZACHARY BECKER
CAVALLINO LEO CONGENI PETER CONNOLLY
ALEX DARCEY WILLIAM DEGENHART, JR. ANDREW DUNCAN SALVATORE ESOLA TRAVIS FISH
NATHAN FLYNN SCOTT HARPER CARTER JENNINGS KLEIN KONRAD
JUDE LACOUR
JACKSON LAGO
ETHAN LAPEZE JOSEPH POURCIAU
AADIL RAB
JACK REISS
Above all, Jesuit relentlessly pursues God’s greater glory. While students’ academic accolades reflect the school’s mission, they are not the mission itself. They instead signify that Blue Jays are becoming the men that they were made to be: men of faith and men for others.
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Son of Evelyn & Chris Schlafer Attended Belle Chasse Academy
Son of Patricia & Tom Schoenbrun Attended Trinity Episcopal School
Son of Kathryn & Matthew Sober Attended Lake Castle Madisonville Private School
Son of Bridgette & Matthew Taylor Attended Mandeville Junior High School & Tchefuncte Middle School
Son of Leslie Sisco-Wise & M. Whitten Wise
Attended Stuart Hall School for Boys
Son of Eileen Summer Black & Najeeb Thomas
Attended Stuart Hall School for Boys
Son of Hui Zhang & Ping Wang Attended Kehoe-France School Southshore
SAMUEL SCHLAFER JOHN HENRY SCHOENBRUN
JACKSON SOBER VAUGHN TAYLOR
CHRISTIAN THOMAS AIDAN WANG
GRAYSON WISE
NATIONAL MERIT COMMENDED
COLLEGE BOARD NATIONAL RECOGNITION
The College Board National Recognition Programs create pathways to college for students from underrepresented communities by awarding them academic honors and connecting them with universities across the country.
Complete information about the NHRP is on the College Board’s website: www.collegeboard.org.
AP SCHOLARS
WILLIAM BERRY
OWEN BOURG
JOHN ALEXANDER PARKER ALIG MAX BARTLETT MASON BECKER
BELLOTT
ALFRED BALART
COLE MAESTRI CARTER RIGNEY JOSE RINCON THOMAS SCHMITT TYLER SCIAMBRA KALEB TROMBLEY
ALI ALSHEREES KENNETH COGNEVICH III
ANDREW FULLER, JR. GRANT GOEBEL JACOB HAMIDE
CONNOR LACOUR
JOHN CALHOUN, JR.
National First Generation Recognition
National Hispanic Recognition
National Indigenous Recognition I
AP SCHOLARS
PADRAIG
GUSTAVE
WILLIAM
NICHOLAS DANNA
DIEGO FERNANDEZ BELLORIN
MINH HOANG
KELLEN MCCONVILLE
PEYTON LANDRY
AIDAN OBLETZ
DEGAN DANSEREAU, JR.
CHARLES GARITTY
MARK JOHNSON
ETHAN MCELVEEN
PETER
DYLAN PATEL
DOMINIC CAROLLO
AP SCHOLARS
QUINN ROSENSTEIN
PAUL
RAAHIL
WILLIAM SOSSAMAN
CORBYN THONN
KLEIN KONRAD
COLE COUVILLON
FRANK YOUNG III
WILLIAM
CALHOUN, JR.
MASON BECKER
ETHAN LAPEZE
BENJAMIN FARMER
MOORE
SAMUEL SCHLAFER
TUCKER SCHIBLER
BASSAM AL HARIRI
BRADY LUMINAIS
PETER LE
JAMES SUNDELL
SALVATORE ESOLA
CHARLIE VARISCO
LEO CONGENI
KENNETH COGNEVICH III
CARTER JENNINGS
LATIN EXAM GOLD MEDALISTS
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NATIONAL LATIN EXAM
The National Latin Exam (NLE) is a test given annually to Latin students across the United States and around the world. The NLE is not meant to be a competition but rather an opportunity for students to receive reinforcement and recognition for their accomplishments in the classroom. Depending on their scores, students may earn certificates, medals, and even qualify for scholarships.
BLAKE TRAN LODOVICO VIGNES, JR. LATIN I
SAMUEL RUSSO
STATE LITERARY RALLY
* * * LHSRA STATE RALLY
The Louisiana High School Rally Association (LHSRA) is a voluntary, nonprofit, educational association of middle and junior units of a school (i.e. 8-12 grades in a K-12 school or ninth grade centers), home schools, and senior high schools that are recognized by the State Department of Louisiana and the colleges and universities that coordinate the district and state competitions each year.
LHSRA provides opportunities for Louisiana students to achieve district- and state-level recognition for their academic and performance talents.
Students are chosen for State Rally from each school in Louisiana through various rounds of subject tests. High performing students compete at District Rally to qualify for State Rally, which has been hosted by Louisiana State University (LSU) for over a century.
In recent years, more than 4,000 students from over 350 schools have participated in State Rally after advancing from their District Rally.
FRENCH I (1ST)
SPANISH III (1ST)
SPANISH IV (3 RD)
ENGLISH III (3 RD)
FRENCH II (2 ND)
LATIN I (3 RD)
LATIN I (2 ND)
PARKER ALIG WILLIAM BELLOTT
PRESTON KUEHNE CORBYN THONN
ANDREW DUNCAN SALVATORE ESOLA KLEIN KONRAD CHRISTIAN THOMAS
BASSAM AL HARIRI MATTHEW BOHNET NATHANIEL COSTANTINI BENJAMIN EVANS
CONNOR BUSSEY BRADY CROWSON
BRENNEN CROWE SAAHIL RAB
LUKE STRAIN JAMES TOUPS
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) underwrites the annual prestigious scholarship competition which recognizes about 16,000 semifinalists, who represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. The NMSC designates semifinalists on a state representational basis to ensure that outstanding students from across the country are included in the talent pool. The number of semifinalists named in each state is in proportion to its percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
Jesuit’s 27 National Merit Semifinalists represent 10% of Louisiana’s 230-plus honorees. Scores for Blue Jay semifinalists ranged from 213 to 225.
In the past 18 years, 521 Blue Jays have been honored as National Merit Semifinalists.
Complete information about the competition is on the NMSC’s website: www.nationalmerit.org.
PERFECT ACT® SCORES
Fewer than half of one percent of students who take the ACT® earn a top score. Each year, only about 4,000 out of nearly 1.3 million students who take the ACT® earn a top composite score of 36.
Additionally, students can also earn a “superscore” of 36 on the ACT®. A superscore is the average of the student’s best scores in each subject from multiple test attempts. A traditional composite score is the average of the four subject scores from a single ACT® test attempt.
Complete information about the ACT ® is on the ACT ® website: www.act.org.
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COLLEGE BOARD AP SCHOLARS
The College Board recognizes students for exceptional achievement on college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams. AP tests are scored on a scale of 1-5.
The AP Scholar designation recognizes students who earned scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams. The AP Scholar with honor designation recognizes students who earned an average of 3.25 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more AP exams. The AP Scholar with distinction designation recognizes students who earned an average score of 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scored 3 or higher on five or more AP exams.
Complete information about AP Scholars is on the College Board’s website: ap.collegeboard.org. *
PERFECT SAT® SCORES
The SAT® is a standardized test that aims to measure students’ knowledge of math, reading, and writing, as well as their college readiness, and fewer than 0.07%—or 7 in 10,000—of all students who take the SAT® achieve a perfect score of 1600.
Complete information about the SAT ® is on the College Board’s website: satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat.
JESUIT’S NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS ARE PICTURED ON THE FRONT COVER
Top row (from left): Andrew Duncan, Jack Reiss, Grayson Wise, Ethan Lapeze, Jude LaCour, Peter Connolly, Zachary Becker, Scott Harper, and Jackson Lago
Middle row: Andrew Cavallino, Carter Jennings, Aadil Rab, Christian Thomas, Klein Konrad, Joseph Pourciau, Nathan Flynn, and Travis Fish
Bottom row: Salvatore Esola, Samuel Schlafer, Lenox Bacerra, Leo Congeni, William Degenhart, Jr., Jackson Sober, Alex Darcey, Aidan Wang, John Henry Schoenbrun, and Vaughn Taylor * * *