Two Sarasota County students scored "top in the world" for their performance on Cambridge International examinations, among only five students in Florida to do so, according to a news release Monday.
Sarasota High School's Margaux Bernadette Albiez received acknowledgement for her work in Global Perspectives and Research. Booker High School's Alexis McKinnon received top honors for her general paper.
"It is a tremendous honor to be recognized by Cambridge International as Top in the World. The best way to describe the Cambridge International program is as an integration into a world of next level thinking," McKinnon said in a press release. "My Cambridge classes have engaged me in a way standard classes had never done before. Learning about issues in the world around me, how to use critical thinking techniques, and how to go about analyzing information has exposed me to concepts that I will be able to apply to thinking in the real world and in my future."
Booker, Sarasota and North Port High School all offer the Advanced International Certificate of Education, created by the University of Cambridge, according to the school district's website. In 2017, students in the United States took nearly 100,000 Cambridge exams. More than 600 U.S. colleges and universities accept Cambridge exams for credit and placement.