BJHS Announces Second Quarter Honor Rolls
Beecher Junior High recently announced students named to its second quarter honor rolls. Congratulations to the following students.
High Honors
Eighth Grade: Mallory Berry, Miguel Corral, Logan Diachenko, Kathryn Gregory, Ella Hammer, Noah Hanson, Benjamin Hartig, Lillian Jerkatis, Kolten Koehn, Aisha Lawal, Peyton Lee, Samantha Loftin, Mila Nikolic, Kayden Norkus, Charlie Nowak, Brian Oldenburg, Edwin Perez-Schulte, Jacob Phillips, Braelynn Scanlan, Natalie Soch, Cyla Thorpe, Selena Vargas, Alissa Wolke, and Michelino Wuest.
Seventh Grade: Makenna Albert, Gianna Bonomo, Jacob Dabrowski, Eunice Garcia, Madelyn Grooms, Kendall Heldt, Reagan Hewitt, Jenna Huskisson, Carmela Irwin, Alexandra Johnson, Oliver Lause, Alyssa Letke, Abraham Montes de Oca, Trevor Panozzo, Katie VonAlven, Grace Wuest, and Kaley Zelhart.
Sixth Grade: Shelton Burdick, Domenico Camilleri, Niccolo Carter, Lillian Farrar, Scott Gardner, Jayne Golke, Lucinda Hartig, Ailany Hernandez, Jaden JaBaay, Trenton Koehn, Molly Krupa, Brody LoSchiavo, Delila Magana, Johnathan Marino, Brooklynn Strayer, Michael Swiat, and Anna Westerhoff.
Honors
Eighth Grade: Axel Avila, Addison Baker, Jeffery Bouchard, Christina Brown, Eduardo Garcia, Brayan Gonzalez, Paxton Gorcowski, Breanna Haemker, Marixa Hernandez, Chase Maher, Ben Malecha, Benjamin Mueller, Omar Ramirez, and Juan Rodriguez.
Seventh Grade: Elainna Benson, Peyton Bernal, Shayleigh Brunger, Brady Cain, Anyeline Diaz Quintana, Presley Galvin, Alexandria Groen-Hudspeth, Fiona Hagan-Storbeck, Matthew Hurley, Zoey Kolosh, Kaylee Kopec, Addison Krakowsky, Ashley Lorenzatti, Raina McKay, Ryan Murphy, Gabriella Navarro, Christina Price, Haley Price, Reese Resedean, Paityn Riechers, Makiya Sundeen, Jaslynn Vargas, Maxwell Vladika, Nina Wilhelm, Chase Wilkins, and Jax Zurek.
Sixth Grade: Carter Biesterfeld, Adriana Camilleri, Christo Dousias, Dana Forest, Ezekiel Graniczny, Wesley Haddon, Ivan Haro, Luke Honeycutt, Kaeleigh Hourigan, Leah Johnson, Sydney Kettmann, Kolbi Koontz, Connor Phillips, Rene Plascencia Avina, Sophia Smith, and Jose Topete.
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