Ocean City Honors Students With Perfect NJ ASK Test Scores

With four to five days of state standardized testing scheduled for April and May, the Ocean City Board of Education paused Wednesday to recognize students who received perfect scores on last year's New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) tests.

The NJ ASK tests are long and extensive assessments of language arts and math given to all New Jersey students in grades 3 to 8. Students in grades 4 and 8 are also tested in science.

The following students received perfect scores on at least one section of the NJ ASK. The majority were perfect in math—with a small number of fourth- and eighth-graders acing science. Achieving a perfect score in language arts is generally considered harder because of subjective writing portions of the test.

Fifty-five different students (two transferred to different districts this year) achieved perfect scores, about double the total from the prior year.

Fourth-graders (who took the test last year in third grade)

• Jacob Patella (Math)
• Jacob Schneider (Math)
• Adam Varga (Math)
• Samantha Wagner (Math)
• Mark Faverzani (Math)

Fifth-graders (who took the test last year in fourth grade)

• Gannon Brady (Math)
• Isaac Eberly (Math)
• Elaina Guido (Math)
• Marissa Guido (Math)
• Thomas Oves (Math)
• Tommy Piernikowski (Math)
• Liam Garbutt (Science)
• Micah Waid (Science)
• Aislyn Warden (Science)

Sixth-graders (who took the test last year in fifth grade)

• Luke Bowman (Math)
• Michael Doliszny (Math)
• Nora Faverzani (Math)
• Gabriel Griffin (Math)
• Nathaniel Hays (Math)
• Casey Helm (Math)
• Garrett Longstaff (Math)
• Andrew Redmond (Math)

Seventh-graders (who took the test last year in sixth grade)

• Korey Greene (Math)
• Victoria Patella (Math)
• Damir Wilson (Math)
• Melody Young (Math)
• Sean Zellers (Math)

Eighth-graders (who took the test last year in seventh grade)

• Austin Fox (Math)
• Patrick Kistler (Math)
• Phoebe Prettyman (Math)

Ninth-graders (who took the test last year in eighth grade)

• Seona Boyle (Math)
• Marc Brosky (Math)
• Lauren Davidson (Math)
• Chase Devlin (Math)
• Nikolas Eisele (Math)
• Tyler Gillian (Math)
• Julianna Kemenosh (Math)
• David Laverty (Math)
• Travis Longstaff (Math)
• Olivia Mack (Math)
• Edward McLaughlin (Math)
• Zachary Onesty (Math)
• Dustin Oves (Math)
• Brooke Proctor (Math)
• Fayelyn Scioli (Math)
• Xiola Sorgi (Math)
• Amanda Stilts (Math)
• Sophia Talese (Math)
• Joseph Terrazzini (Math)
• Kevin Yang (Math)
• Bridget Young (Math)
• Kiersten Estelle (Science)