Eastside High School (EHS) seniors in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program who received their IB diplomas finished well above the global pass rate.
According to an Alachua County Public Schools press release, the global pass rate is 85.6%. In 2021, 92% of Eastside students earned their IB diploma; and in 2022, it was 91%.
The IB Program’s goal, as written on its website, is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. The curriculum is unique because it emphasizes intercultural and interdisciplinary connections.
The juniors and seniors in the program spend their days studying five to six subjects, writing comprehensive research essays, executing critical thinking tactics, and completing CAS activities.
In the past year, 177 EHS juniors and seniors tackled 683 IB exams.
To achieve an IB Diploma, a student must score at least 24 points. EHS students averaged 33 points, and the highest score earned by a candidate was 43.
Five EHS IB diploma recipients achieved 40 points or more. The 2022 recipients of the IB diploma include (Students who earned 40 or more diploma points are marked with an asterisk):
Agarwal, Amrutha
Batist, Rani
Bishop-Gylys, Matthew
Brauner, Noga
Bridgemohan, Sharon
Britch, Dylan
Bullard, Samuel
Buss, Heather
Choi, Hyungjun
Ciego, Steve
Cohen, Sawyer
Colon, Avery
Cooke, Leila
Dagins, Clarence
Dold, Ava
El Ghissassi, Ritaj
Ferrell, Abigail
Fromholt, Rhiannon
Gonzalez, Eluney*
Gu, Melody
Guduru, Sai Pranav
Hashmi, Maha
Hassan, Faris
Hincapie-Leon, Nicolas
Ingmarsson, Felix
Janelle, Michael
Jha, Anish
Jiang, Richard*
Karalkar, Vedant
Langley, Maribella
Li, Patricia
Manning, Mairen
Martin, Patrick
Martin-Burrows, Alfonso
Mathews, Bryn
McGlothlin, Noah
Morris, Ronan*
Omalay, Leann
Overdevest, Charles
Padron, Andres
Park, Daniel
Parks, Rachel*
Patel, Bhagya
Patel, Esha
Patel, Harin
Patel, Heet
Patel, Ishan
Pathak, Atharva*
Paul, Ahmik
Ponciano Diaz, Lia
Pothu, Shashank
Rosales, Valerio Jesus
Russo, Anne
Shin, Annemarie
Sidhu, Sukhman
Someya, Kazushi
Sowers, Ripley
Suzuki, Nio
Tan, Tristin
Thomas, Adam
Tolentino, Jemima
Valiente Lauzan, Isabella
Venkatesh, Shrinidhi
Walters, Haiji
Wang, William
Wegner, Nadia
Wegner, Owen
Zhai, Kathy
Zhang, Daniel
Zhao, Daniel