MONTICELLO – Monticello Excessive Faculty Principal, Travis Courson is happy to announce that 19 Monticello Excessive Faculty college students from the graduating class of 2023 have been acknowledged as Illinois State Students.
The Illinois Scholar Help Fee (ISAC), the state company dedicated to serving to make school accessible and reasonably priced for Illinois households, confers this prestigious recognition to prime Illinois highschool college students yearly. This 12 months, greater than 16,700 excellent honorees be part of the opposite prime college students who’ve been honored for his or her educational achievements because the designation was first launched in 1958.
Illinois State Students signify roughly the highest ten p.c of highschool seniors from 757 excessive colleges throughout the state. Illinois State Students possess robust educational potential and are chosen primarily based on a mix of exemplary ACT or SAT take a look at scores and sixth semester class rank.
“It is a nice honor for our college students right here at Monticello Excessive Faculty,” mentioned Courson. “The educational surroundings right here, created by each college students and workers, consists of excessive expectations and our college students work extraordinarily arduous at not solely assembly these expectations, however as a rule, exceeding them. This recognition is nicely earned by our college students, and I feel I can converse for the whole Monticello faculty neighborhood in stating how proud we’re of them. Congratulations to all recipients throughout the state.”
The next college students from Monticello Excessive Faculty Class of 2023 have been named Illinois State Students: Cameron Allender, son of Matt and Alison Allender – Monticello; Mabry Bruhn, daughter of Derrick and Lynne Bruhn – Monticello; Lydia Burger, daughter of Dustin and Denise Burger – Monticello; Logan Courchaine, son of Thomas and Melanie Courchaine – Monticello; Lauren Dunnett, daughter of Alastair and Shelley Dunnett – White Heath; Jenna Figor, daughter of Jay Kreibich and Debbie Fligor – Monticello; Sarah German, daughter of Fred German and Jamie Gerardi – White Heath; Slater Goebel, son of Nathan and Amber Goebel – Monticello; Taylor Herman, daughter of Jason and Shanelle Herman – Monticello; Ian King, son of James and Junsara King – Monticello; Megan LeJeune, daughter of Michael and Rachel LeJeune – Monticello; Haiden Mast, son of Benjamin and Angel Mast – White Heath; Jacqueline Maxey, daughter of Bruce and Jill Maxey – Monticello; Lucy Maxwell, daughter of James and Kim Maxwell – Monticello; Estella Miller, daughter of Matt Miller and Sarah Probst Miller- Monticello; Addison Schmidt, daughter of Gerald Schmidt and Kristi Roth – Monticello; Andrew Sheppard, son of Marc and Lisa Sheppard – Monticello; Rose Talbert, daughter of Matthew and Ann Talbert – Monticello; Cailey Wittig, daughter of Craig and Brandy Wittig – White Heath;
“On behalf of ISAC, congratulations to all the excellent college students chosen as 2023-24* Illinois State Students,” mentioned ISAC Govt Director Eric Zarnikow. “College students and households confronted quite a few challenges during the last two years with distant studying, amongst different monetary and private difficulties. As we proceed to get better from the pandemic, these educational achievements are a credit score to the arduous work and dedication of the coed students and their households, and to the help supplied by academics, mentors, counselors, and communities in serving to college students meet their objectives and discover success as they advance on their schooling and profession paths.”
The Illinois State Scholar designation is a non-monetary award. Every State Scholar will obtain a congratulatory letter and a Certificates of Achievement from ISAC. Moreover, awardees can obtain an official Illinois State Scholar Program badge to show on their on-line profiles, social media platforms, and share with their highschool counselors, faculties, employers, members of the family and others.
All college students, together with State Students, who plan to be enrolled in school subsequent fall are urged to finish their 2023-24 Free Utility for Federal Scholar Help (FAFSA) as quickly as potential with a view to decide eligibility for federal and state monetary assist. ISAC gives free monetary assist and school entry occasions to help college students and households with the college-going course of.
College students may also go to the ISAC Scholar Portal for faculty planning, monetary assist and monetary literacy info and free instruments, in addition to info on how one can contact the ISACorps, a bunch of latest school graduates who act as near-peer mentors, for one-on-one help and mentoring. College students may also get solutions to their college-going and monetary assist questions despatched on to their telephones by signing up for ISAC Faculty Q&A, isac.org/collegeqa, ISAC’s free textual content messaging service.
ISAC additionally gives help by the company name heart, 1-800-899-4722 (ISAC). Go to the ISAC Scholar Portal for extra info at www.studentportal.isac.org.
About ISAC
ISAC gives complete, goal, and well timed info on schooling and monetary assist for college kids and their households – giving them entry to the instruments they should make the academic selections which can be proper for them. Then, by the state scholarship and grant packages ISAC administers, ISAC may also help college students make these selections a actuality. Discover us at isac.org and comply with us on Fb (@ILStudentAssistance), Twitter and on Instagram @ISACfinaid.