Arlington Private School Students Excel at Academic Meet

April 5, 2011 - PRLog -- Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from Arlington's Pantego Christian Academy excelled at the recent PSIA (Private Schools Interscholastic Association) 2011 Academic Meet in Argyle, Texas.  

The students who achieved 1st or 2nd will complete in the State Meet later this month at TCU.  The complete list of PCA students (by grade level) and their achievements include:

6TH GRADE:

Julia Cantrell
- 3rd Maps, Graphs, and Charts
- 4th Ready Writing
- 6th Science

Chance Simmons
- 5th Maps, Graphs, and Charts

Sydney Bryan
- 1st Mathematics
- 2nd Prose Interpretation
- 2nd Vocabulary

Austin Hunt
- 2nd Mathematics
- 2nd Science
- 6th Spelling

Danielle Sanders
- 3rd Mathematics
- 4th Prose Interpretation

Aidan Coggeshall
- 1st Number Sense

Gabi Del Rio
- 2nd Number Sense

Morgan Caldwell
- 3rd Number Sense
- 3rd Vocabulary

Kyle Russell
- 2nd On-site Drawing

Jolea Carpenter
- 4th On-site Drawing

Rebecca Mitchell
- 3rd Prose Interpretation

Abbi Turner
- 2nd Ready Writing

Jordan Jacob
- 2nd Spelling

Kelcy Rhoades
- 1st Vocabulary


7TH GRADE:

Brittany Davis
- 4th Calculator Applications

Gracie Latham
- 4th Impromptu Speaking
- 4th Ready Writing

Jeffrey Colston
- 3rd Maps, Graphs, and Charts

Callie McClellan
- 5th Maps, Graphs, and Charts
- 5th Number Sense

Connor Morris
- 3rd Mathematics
- 6th Vocabulary

Erin Phelan
- 5th Mathematics

Hannah Hassett
- 2nd Number Sense

Meredith Locke
- 6th On-site Drawing

Melissa Cintron
- 4th Spelling

Rebecca Curie
- 3rd Vocabulary


8TH GRADE:

Sami Del Rio
- 2nd Maps, Graphs, and Charts

Erikka Fuhr
- 4th Maps, Graphs, and Charts

Dylan Sommerfeld
- 5th Maps, Graphs, and Charts

Grayson Humphrey
- 1st Mathematics

Jenna Van’t Land
- 2nd Mathematics

Sarah Scarbrough
- 3rd Mathematics

Mitchell Johnson
- 6th Modern Oratory

James Montgomery
- 2nd Number Sense

Dayne Putman
- 4th On-site Drawing

Lauren Fenyes
- 6th On-site Drawing

Kaila Wherry
- 6th Prose Interpretation

Jack Turner
- 3rd Ready Writing

Lauren Jameson
- 6th Science

ABOUT THE PSIA STATE MEET:
Approximately 2,700 students from across Texas have qualified for the 2011 Private
Schools Interscholastic Association Academic State Meets to be held at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth. These students qualified for the PSIA State Meets by placing first or second individually in one or more contests at the PSIA District Meet held at 27 area tournaments.

ABOUT PSIA
The purpose of the PSIA academic program is to use competition to further develop
students’ higher order thinking skills. “‘Inspiring student achievement through academic
competition’ remains our primary goal,” said Dr. Patricia Walters, PSIA Executive
Director. “In addition, PSIA serves to honor and reward academic achievements, while
ensuring that the overall purposes of the program are to use competition as a tool in the
preparation of students for citizenship and successful adulthood, and to provide incentive
to excel in academics.” Eight scholarship awards, ranging from $100 to $1500,
were presented to worthy 8th grade students in 2010 through the PSIA scholarship
program. If donations are sufficient, scholarships ranging from $100 to $1500 will
be awarded in May, 2011.

Celebrating its 13th year as a non-profit 501(c)(3) service organization for private
schools, PSIA serves 255 member schools this year and continues to provide the most
comprehensive academic extracurricular program in the nation for privately-schooled
students in grades 1-8, offering 19 contests, with awards in 59 grade-level events.
Contests include a wide spectrum of advanced curricula in mathematics, science, social
studies, listening, reading, vocabulary, speaking, writing, art, music and drama.

Approximately 48,000 privately-schooled students throughout Texas, including homeschooled
children and public charter schools, are currently being served through membership
in the PSIA program. With more than 250 private schools in the program this
year, the growth challenge continues.

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Pantego Christian Academy is an independent, interdenominational preparatory school that provides a Christ-centered education in a secure, nurturing environment to more than 850 students in grades pre-K through 12 on two campuses in the DFW area. http://www.pantego.com