2026 NJ State Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

The following graduating seniors achieved the 2026 State Seal of Biliteracy in: Chinese, French, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. In order to be eligible for a State Seal, students must earn a score of 5 or higher in each language domain: reading, writing, listening, speaking on the Avant STAMP Assessment or score a 4 or 5 on the AP Language course in the language.

* indicates students earning Seals of Biliteracy in two languages.

Students recognized for Chinese:
Chen, Lexis
Chiou, Calvin
Lee, Evelyn C.
Liang, Tianyi
*Lopez-Simpson, Gabriel A.
Tan, Kaira
Wang, Anna
Wang, Grace
Wang, Katherine
Xing, Emma
Yan, Stephanie
Yu, Keira L.

Students recognized for French:
*Belachew, Hasset M. (Amharic)
Daniyel, Yeva
*Kim, Daila (Spanish)
Yang, Ethan

Students recognized for Hindi:
Dhawan, Anoushka
Kaushik, Kritika

Students recognized for Italian:
Kropac, Tanner
Mandala, Jake
Narang, Jenya

Student recognized for Japanese:
Chua, Julie

Students recognized for Korean:
Jang, Michelle
Li, Kayla
*Min, Julia (Spanish)
Oh, Taeha

Students recognized for Portuguese:
Koblinger, Rhayane
Martins, Isabela

Students recognized for Russian:
Koganov, Lev
Schnyder, Gregory
Shkolnikov, Alexander
Tarasyuk, Ivanka
*Tolstenkov, Egor (Spanish)

Students recognized for Spanish:
Balija, Neel
Cando Santellan, Jayli P.
Chandiwala, Ritika
Chen, Fiona
Chen, Ryan
Escalante, Josue
Ferrans, Anne
Flores, David
Florita, Sabrina G.
Gall, Cecilia
Gantman, Isabelle
Gupta, Akshay
Harman, Jordyn
Herrera, Emilia
Hwang, Kallie
Juneja, Yash
Kestenbaum, Ari
*Kim, Daila (French)
King, Emma
Klein, Abe
Kulkarni, Saanvi
Lavian, Daniela
Leit, Jeremy
*Lopez-Simpson, Gabriel A. (Chinese)
Lovenheim, Jeremy
Massiani, Luis
*Min, Julia (Korean)
Misthal, Gwen
Oliveira, Joshua
Pessoa, Alexander
Rios, Tristan
Romero Vasquez, Carolina V.
Saiegh, Amanda
Sanzana Diaz, Gustavo Andres
Shah, Aryan
Sivaraju, Anjali
Solis, Justin
*Tolstenkov, Egor (Russian)
Turbin, Gabriel
Wang, Grace [2]
Warter, Jake
Wheeler, Eli
*Xing, Emma (Chinese simplified)

Students recognized for Turkish:
Aykut, Serdar
Aykut, Sezin

Students recognized for other languages:
Mertola, Jo Althea Marien (Filipino)
Schumacher, Sophie (German)
Gliatis, Alexandros (Greek)
Helli, Kristof (Hungarian)
Giusti, Daniel (Lithuanian)
Grzelinski, Adrian (Polish)