Nearly 100 Rockwood Students Graduate with Missouri Seal of Biliteracy
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Nearly 100 Rockwood Students Graduate with Missouri Seal of Biliteracy
More than 90 Rockwood School District students representing all four district high schools earned Missouri Seal of Biliteracy or Distinguished Missouri Seal of Biliteracy recognition this year.
The Missouri Seal of Biliteracy is awarded to graduating high school students in districts with a DESE-approved program who have demonstrated achievement in English, a language other than English and sociocultural competence. All Missouri students studying any of the world’s languages are potential Seal candidates. According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), students across the state earned a total of 1,701 Seal of Biliteracy awards in 2024.
This year, Rockwood students earned the Seal in Spanish (76 students), French (19), German, Portuguese and Tamil (two each). A total of nine Rockwood students earned the Distinguished Missouri Seal of Biliteracy, recognizing students who show an advanced level of proficiency in at least two languages, two Rockwood students earned the Seal of Biliteracy in two different languages, and one student earned it in three different languages.
Congratulations to these outstanding students! Here are the 97 Rockwood students who earned the Missouri Seal of Biliteracy and Distinguished Seal this year, along with in which langauge(s) they earned the honor.
Eureka High
- Blake Ashby: Spanish
- Ethan Barbin: Spanish
- Emmett Beeson: Spanish
- Ethan Beyrouty: Spanish
- Peter Blosser: Spanish
- Ale Carvalhaes: French, Portuguese and Spanish
- Zachary Clark: Spanish
- Katie Criswell: Spanish
- Blake Forke: Spanish
- Samuel Garner: Spanish
- Shawn Gurusinghe: Spanish
- Tom Hans: Spanish
- Nina Hauri: Spanish
- Emerson Hicks: Spanish
- Harper Highfill: Spanish
- Charlotte Knight: Spanish
- Claire Midgley: Spanish
- Aiden Pennington: Spanish
- Zoe Perez: Spanish
- Taylor Pike: Spanish
- Noelle Reed: Spanish
- Jenna Selbert: Spanish
- Stephen Shaji: Spanish
- Ryder Sink: Spanish
- Erin Smith: French
- Jordan Smith: Spanish
- Evan Watts: Spanish
Lafayette High
- Matias Bort: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Giorgia Giovannini: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Mary Hails: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Navin Narayanan: Tamil (Distinguished)
- Camila Suarez Rincon: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Alex Behl: Spanish
- Lauren Blosser: French
- Ava Budd: Spanish
- Natalie Caudle: French
- Baron Czymmek: Spanish
- Annapurna Damaraju: Spanish
- Nathan Denen: Spanish
- Lucy DiCarlo: Spanish
- Grace Doherty: Spanish
- Piper Dunn: French
- Aava Fotouhi: Spanish
- Lilly Glandt: Spanish
- Ava Harkey: Spanish
- Blake Jaycox: French
- Juan Diego Jimenez: Spanish
- Isabel Jimenez-Gutierrez: Spanish
- Malak Kamil Qastoma: Spanish
- Noah McLane: French
- Kaile McLaughlin: French
- Lily Murphy: French
- Cian O'Brien: Spanish
- Natalie Paralingam: Spanish
- Madison Pfeiffer: Spanish
- Kate Ruta: Spanish
- Francisco Sala: Spanish
- Luis Sanchez Fernandez: Spanish
- Kassy Vera: Spanish
- Sophia Wood: Spanish
- Elizabeth Workman: French
Marquette High
- Abigail Rosales: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Hridhay Suswaram: Tamil (Distinguished) and French
- Aryan Valsa Pradeep: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Evan Voelker: Spanish (Distinguished)
- Zoe Bartlow: Spanish
- Joslyn Bogner: French
- William Bomkamp: Spanish
- Emma Carcamo: Spanish
- Tommy Cooper: Spanish
- Diego Escamilla: Spanish
- Eli Ferguson: Spanish
- Apurva Ganti: French
- Thurston Gray: Spanish
- Melany Lagarda Santos: Spanish
- Marin Lally: Spanish
- Emaline Little: Spanish
- Laura Moraes: Spanish
- Cassy O'Dell: Spanish
- Carter Pitt: German
- Atharva Shinde: Spanish
- Elijah Trotta: Spanish
- Krishay Vanga: French
- Pedro Vicentin Rezende: French and Portuguese
- Peyton Weissman: Spanish
Rockwood Summit High
- Aliza Carlson: German
- Mary Corkery: Spanish
- Allie Cross: French
- Olivia Dring: Spanish
- Sophia Howard: French
- Madeline Kelly: Spanish
- Clodagh Kloos: Spanish
- Abbott Lackey: Spanish
- Mackenzie McClanahan: French
- Caterina Rossomanno: French
- Logan Schober: Spanish
- Hayden Steinkuehler: Spanish
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