Three La Jolla High School students received top honors as a school team took fifth place at the WordWright Challenge, a national competition of high school students’ aptitude for reading and analysis.
Junior Enzo Serafino and sophomore Clayton Halbert earned perfect scores, and received individual honors, as did junior Geneva Kotler. The school’s sophomore group earned the team honor.
Tens of thousands of students from nearly 600 schools participated. The competition required students to analyze short stories to poetry to essays in a manner similar to the verbal questions from the SAT.
Some of the work they used included an opinion piece published in the New York Times and an excerpt from an Anthony Trollope novel.