Continuing a tradition at Maria Regina High School, four academically top performing students were recently notified that they had earned the prestigious 2024 College Board National Recognition Program Awards.
They were among more than 90,000 students from communities historically underrepresented on college campuses who were honored by the College Board.
The Maria Regina honorees are:
Melissa DeLuise (Class of ’25) of Yonkers and Leonora Hutaj (Class of ’25) of Hartsdale who both won the First-Generation Recognition Award, a new category introduced this year. The College Board defines a first-generation student as one whose parent(s) did not complete a bachelor’s degree.
Loren Martinez (Class of ’25) of White Plains who earned the African-American Recognition Award.
Amaya Mejia (Class of 26) of Yonkers who won both the African-American Recognition Award and the Hispanic Recognition Award.
Maria Carozza-McCaffrey (Class of ’99), Principal, said: “We are thrilled to congratulate Melissa, Leonora, Loren and Maya who distinguished themselves in meeting the College Board’s very rigorous academic criteria. Their outstanding achievement, which will help them stand out during the college admissions process, is a testament to their dedication to academic excellence in keeping with Maria Regina’s tradition spanning more than 65 years.”
Maria Regina is proud to celebrate its students’ remarkable achievements in earning highly coveted College Board Recognition Awards. For the third consecutive year, four or more of our students have been honored in the College Board’s annual recognition awards, showcasing their dedication and excellence.
Maria Regina also announced at the start of the new 2024-2025 academic year that it joined a select group of secondary schools in the nation—and the only all-girls high school in Westchester County and one of three High Schools in the entire Archdiocese of New York Secondary Schools System—to offer the academically rigorous College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Capstone Diploma Program.
The AP Capstone Diploma is the latest offering in Maria Regina’s acclaimed academic program and the culmination of the significant increase in recent years in the number of AP courses that are offered; the percentage of students who have enrolled in at least one AP course, and, “even more impressively, the outstanding performance and top honors our students have achieved in these academically challenging courses,” noted Carozza-McCaffrey.
To learn more, visit www.mariaregina.org.
