Richland One School Wins Top Math Honors

At Crayton Middle School one plus one equals success! Crayton took first-place statewide in the American Mathematics Competition 8 (AMC 8), a national math exam recently taken by 143,000 middle school students across the country. Nationally, Crayton placed in the top 1 percent and was the only South Carolina school to be listed on the AMC 8 School Honor Roll.

Nearly 500 Crayton students competed in the AMC 8. Several brought home top honors.

• First-place state winners: Allison Day, Sean Soni and Sage Price
  
• USA Distinguished Honor Roll (scores in the top 1 percent): Meredith Nix, Caroline Cross and Walker Stinnette
  
• USA Honor Roll (scores in top 2-5 percent): Catherine Wingard, Hardy Cate, Maria Piroli, Ray-Kelle Preston, Mackenzie Sunday, J. D. Elliott, Taylor Kirk, Alex Van Dine, Angela Allsbrook, Rakesh Kumar, Richard Lawson and Elizabeth Timmons.
  
• USA Student Merit Roll (6th grade or below scoring in top 15 percent): Hardy Cate

Richland One congratulates all of the winners, as well as Crayton’s AMC 8 coordinator, math teacher John Rushman, who has successfully coached many winning math teams.

For more information, please contact the Richland One Office of Communications at 231-7504 or 231-7510.