Wow…look at these Long Beach kids!

Long Beach Unified School District announced today that this year’s scholarships and other monetary awards earned by graduating Long Beach seniors exceeded $51 million – surpassing last year’s record of $40 million. The new record also represents a significant increase from the $18 million earned by local high school graduates just three years ago.

Students at the California Academy of Mathematics and Science earned $14.42 million. (With a senior class of only 142 students, CAMS graduates earned an average of $101,600 each in scholarships this year.) CAMS  is run by LBUSD and this year’s students admission Amherst, Brown, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Florida Tech, Georgetown, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Johns Hopkins, Howard, MIT, NYU, Olin, Pomona College, Princeton, Stanford, Syracuse, all of the University of California campuses, the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams and Yale.

Poly High School students earned $10.72 million
Wilson High School students earned $9.13 million
Millikan High School students earned $8.07 million. A member of the girls’ track and   field team, Ashley Smith, earned more than $1.2 million in athletic scholarships (she has committed to attending UC Berkeley.

Lakewood High School students earned $3.37 million

Jordan High School students earned $2.61 million
Cabrillo High School students earned $1.97 million

Renaissance High School for the Arts students earned $737,766

Hundreds of students won non-monetary honors, including awards for Service Learning (logging hundreds of community service hours), K-12 perfect attendance, and recognition by Kiwanis, Rotary and many other local youth service organizations.

LBUSD has 5,957 graduates this year.

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