32 LBHS School Students Earn International Baccalaureate Diplomas

Written by Rosemary Leonetti/Syntax.

Thirty-two graduates of the Long Beach High School Class of 2013 have officially earned their International Baccalaureate diplomas in July, doubling the number of IB diplomas earned since the first cohort of IB diploma candidates graduated in 2012.

Kirsten Anderson, Katrina Ayala, Taylor Barje, Alexander Blum, Scott Blumenfeld, Jordan Bochner, Zuzana Calbo, Drew Castillo, David Fuchs, Lorena Garcia, Darling Gutierrez, Melanie Jasper, Edwin Jung, Jarrett Levine, Ashley Martin, Jennifer Nash, Ashita Patel, Natalia Podboraczynska, Alexis Romano, Shannon Romig, Jordan Rosario, Carlo Sevilla, Michael Solomonic, Mason Steinberg, Ethan Sukonik, Joseph Sweeney, Casey Talay, Brian Vega, David Velez, Neil Wall, Harli Weitz and Noah Wiesner joined the ranks of a select group of 25,000 students nationally and 50,000 globally who have completed this demanding program.

Long Beach High School became an International Baccalaureate World School in 2010. The IB Diploma Program is a comprehensive two-year academic program that is designed to prepare young people to meet the academic demands of college while motivating them to become thoughtful, caring and active citizens. Classroom instruction is designed to encourage students to be inquirers, well-balanced, thinkers, caring, reflective, knowledgeable, principled, open-minded, risk takers and communicators. Students who are not IB diploma candidates can elect to take any number of the 23 individual IB courses offered at Long Beach High School and receive certificates of credit by taking the IB exams.