Class of 2021 Top 20 Students

The valedictorian of the Class of 2021 is Aliyah John. Through hard work Aliyah was able to achieve this high academic status and prevail throughout her time at Lindenhurst High School. The Charles Street Times was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview Aliyah about her academic achievements.  Throughout high school, Aliyah was a determined and hardworking student. She took a mu...

Isabella Pedone ranked 2nd and is the Salutatorian of the  Class of 2021.  This is an amazing accomplishment, and even more noteworthy when one looks at Isabella's schedule.  Even amidst a pandemic, and hybrid learning, she has taken on the enormous challenge of a hefty schedule loaded with AP and College level courses.  Isabella is enrolled in 3 AP classes: Spanish, Calculus, and Physics.  Her...

Alexander Snit, ranked number three in the class of 2021, has been able to achieve remarkably high academic standards all throughout his high school career.  Snit is obviously an outstanding student, taking AP courses and clearly thriving in all of them. When he was asked what his favorite was, his choice was AP Physics, which is also the class with his most impactful teacher from his years at LH...

Ranked number 4 in her class, Grace Barbara is clearly a greatly accomplished member of the senior class of 2021. Majoring in Biology, Grace will be continuing her education at either Northeastern University or Binghamton University.  As did most of her classmates, Grace found online learning challenging at times. She found challenge in not physically being in a classroom, and that her focus o...

In a year filled with such uncertainty, Connor Colford has still found his way to being the fifth ranked student in the entire class of 2021. Even though he described the year as “tumultuous and different,” Colford still found it quite rewarding to be able to find success during this insane school year. Having known Connor personally for three years, it’s safe to say that he is one of the ha...

Throughout his high school career, Jarred Navarro managed to achieve amazing academic achievements through being ranked sixth in his graduating Class of 2021. Jarred describes his senior year as “Busy, confusing, and rewarding.” Jarred says the most challenging part of remote learning is, “Not being able to have personal interactions with teachers.” He overcame this by unmuting and aski...

Hailee Shehu has been exactly what a Lindenhurst top 20 candidate should in balancing all her AP classes over the last four years at the high school. To describe her senior year in three words she said "Unexpected, unique, memorable" all very interesting ways to describe a wild senior year with the COVID pandemic going on. Hailee has been fully remote the whole year and from the traditional way to l...

Through a lot of hard work and dedication, senior Robert Hager ranked 8th in the Class of 2021.  In a senior year unlike any other, Rob had three words to describe his senior year; "quick, simple, and unique."  When reflecting on his experience remote learning in the early portion of this school year, Rob admitted that it was hard to pay attention in class, and sometimes he struggled staying...

During his career in high school, Adrian Bak has achieved many great things within his studies. With these great things, he has achieved the honor of graduating at rank 9 out of 20!  Throughout this very new and difficult school year, Adrian Bak has described his senior year as being “challenging, unique and transformative.” Although this school year was very challenging for Adrian, he overcame...

In her high school career, Dina McGinley assembled a spectacular resume with superb academic and extracurricular achievements. With such a strong resume, Dina finds herself ranked tenth in the 2021 Lindenhurst High School graduating class.  Dina describes her senior year as, “good, eventful and different” As she said, things have been different as we all know, as much of the school year this ye...

Getting in the top 20 is highly competitive, and by it’s nature only a very small percentage of students will ever achieve that honor. One of these students is Tatiana Leonovich. Placed at 10, there is no doubt a lot of work, effort, and dedication went into getting to that rank. If Tatiana had to describe her year in three words, they would be “Would Not Recommend.” Senior year can already be stre...

Kamil Galazka is one of the few students who made it into the top 20, one of 21 this year in fact, as he is ranked number 11. When asked to describe his senior year in three words, kamil said “Fast, unique, fun.” With his biggest challenge this year being “waking up on time” according to him, with a solution of just having a better plan for his schedule. Some of Kamil’s favorite classes h...

Throughout his high school career, Gabriel Chodon has been able to achieve extensive academic achievements through ranking twelfth in the graduating class of 2021.  Gabe has described his senior year of high school as “fast, relieving, and stressful”. Seniors of the Class of 2021 have overcome many obstacles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the online learning model. Gabe says that, “the most c...

Kevin Herbst, number 13 on the 2020 school ranking and an avid volleyball player. Describing his senior year, the three words he uses are slow, boring and unique as would many seniors in this year's unpredictable and restricted nature in midst of a pandemic.  However, even in the middle of a pandemic, Kevin says that he has not had many challenges with remote learning and has been able to adjus...

Senior and National Honor Society President, Brooklyn Ratel, is wrapping up her final moments at Lindenhurst High School, which she also characterizes as “a hectic ride.” Through all of her persistent efforts, including overcoming the challenge of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Brooklyn was ranked 14th in her class. In Brooklyn’s high school career, she was a part of our school’s orchestra. She en...

Philip Bullock has worked hard through Lindenhurst High School to receive the honor of being placed fifteenth in the top twenty of his graduating class 2021.  Philip is not committed yet but has plans of going to Cornell, Stonybrook, or RIT for mechanical engineering. He's in the science club, film club, and outdoor gardening club. He's also a part of the football and basketball team.  Phili...

This year has been a change for all students in Lindenhurst High School, especially the seniors. All things they needed to do to prepare for college were altered to fit COVID-19 safety precautions. When I interviewed Julia Messina, a senior in the top 20 of her class, she gave me an insight as to what she has been doing this year.  During the interview, Julia mentioned that she is a very organiz...

Being in the Top 20 of your graduating class is a remarkable accomplishment. But being in the Top 20 on top of doing many extracurricular activities is even more amazing. That is what Alexis Provenz was able to accomplish in high school, as she was ranked number 17 in her graduating class.  Provenz, as mentioned previously, was involved in many extracurricular activities. She was involved in V...

Throughout her time at Lindenhurst High School, Leanna Birsner has worked hard and has achieved many things, such as ranking eighteenth in the Class of 2021.  Leanna has had a “unique, fun, and exciting” senior year. For college, she will be attending the “University of Rochester,” and is “majoring in brain and cognitive sciences.” One trouble of online learning was “applying for colleg...

Ranking at number 19 in the top 20 Lindenhurst High School senior with the highest academic performance is Kaitlyn Taveras. Achieving this is an astounding achievement in itself, nevertheless for some students this may be a greater feat to accomplish because it’s the new class of 2021, the one year anniversary of Covid-19. Nonetheless there was still an excellent amount of effort put into her fulfillment. Kaitlyn...

The Top 20 for Lindenhurst High School is full of some of the brightest, most unique kids in the school. To be named in the Top 20 is a great achievement and one should be very proud of doing so. Nikki is very involved within the Lindenhurst High School community. Nikki is the president of DECA, the CEO of the Virtual Enterprise company, Eco-Experience, she is involved in Italian club, is in the Na...