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2025 NJ State Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

The following graduating seniors achieved the 2025 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.

 

Students (14) recognized for Chinese

Chan, Tsz Yin Angelica

Cui, Suzeyu

Hao, Helen

Jiang, Christina

Lam, Varian

Li, Jiaqi*

Pan, Brian

Peng, Sophia

Schegolev, Antonina*

Shen, Rebecca X.

Shi, Hannah

Zhang, Amelie

Zhang, Kevin D

Zhao, Asher

 

Students (2) recognized for French:

Belachew, Yedidyah M.

Escobar-Rivera, Luc*

 

Students (2) recognized for Hindi:

Arora, Aarav

Gopal, Poorva

 

Students (2) recognized for Italian:

Chaparro, Antonia*

Colangelo, Giulia

 

Students (1) recognized for Korean:

Moon, Jubilee

 

Students (4) recognized for Portuguese:

Koblinger, Aubrey

Nagata, Enrico*

Pereira, Laura

Ramos, Joshua

 

Students (3) recognized for Russian:

Schegolev, Antonina*

Valyaev-Kunisky, Artem

Tarasyuk, Egor

 

Students (37) recognized for Spanish:

Best, Benjamin

Bialick, Darcy

Barber, Zachary

Boullosa, Rebeca 

Budz, Diana

Chaparro, Antonia*

Chen, Kelly

Chen Loretta

Chi, Esther

Escobar-Rivera, Luc*

Fleishman, Jordan

Guo, Eric

Jung, Jaylyn

Kashkoush, Sara 

Koff, Leah

Leon, Giselle

Li, Avery

Li, Jiaqi*

Mahalingam, Maya

Malde, Samay

Mann, Alexandra

Martes, Benjamin

Nagata, Enrico*

Niu, Eric

Ramos, Joshua

Rubinstein, Alexis

Schiff, Jordan

Siddiqui, Ebaad

Siegel, Brooke

Siguencia Torres, Kathy G.

Wang, Sophia

Xu, Audrey

Yaari, Melanie

Yang, Alexander

Yu, Lucy

Zhang, Kevin

Zhu, Jenny J

 

*Students are recognized for earning the Seal of Biliteracy in two languages: 

Antonia Chaparro [Italian and Spanish]

Jiaqi Li [Chinese and Spanish]

Enrico Nagata [Portuguese and Spanish]

Luc Escobar-Rivera [French and Spanish]

Joshua Ramos [Portuguese and Spanish]

Antonina Schegolev [Chinese and Russian]

 

65 Seals of Biliteracy awarded

59 students