Students of the Month for the 2019-2020 Academic Year

Students of the Month 

Every month since our establishment in the year 2003 we congratulate the students that were selected student of the month and that have demonstrated that they are striving for excellence at Washburn 🦅 .

We have a criteria for evaluating students that includes voting from all staff and faculty members in a rubric that includes Washburn's goals, observations of their academic work, classroom behavior, alignment with Washburn's values in and outside the classroom, and their positive impact to our overall community. The teachers who vote and nominate fill out the rubric anonymously through a point system that is added up.  Parents or guardians are welcome to witness the recognition.

Student of the Month is a great way for the teachers to show how much they appreciate and respect you in school.

The teachers and faculty who nominate and assign points to the students are always anonymous and they use a rubric of over 25 different criteria that  demonstrate Washburn values.  It means that all teachers and even administration staff help pick the winners.

Profile of a Washburn School Student

Students at Washburn School have different cultures, backgrounds, 

religions, and nationalities, yet they all share an eagerness to learn. Year after year, Washburn School students’ standardized test scores place them among the highest-achieving schools in the island. This is no surprise, as teachers and students have a highly personalized way of interacting. From the moment you come to Washburn you notice a different culture and environment. Each child is well known by all the teachers and other students throughout the school. Teachers work with the staff and the parents to ensure that students are academically challenged, but not unnecessarily overwhelmed

When you meet a Washburn student you notice that they have received a premier education where they develop a high sense of integrity, honesty, fairness, justice, natural curiosity, personal commitment and a love for learning and achievement. Children leave Washburn as young men and women who have a love of learning that will stay with them for their entire lives. They have a broad range of interests and openness to new ideas. They are multilingual communicators, risk takers and critical thinkers.

Identity Statement 

Washburn School is a private, nonsectarian, multicultural, nonprofit, value-based, college preparatory Pre-K to 12th grade school in which English is the main language of instruction.

Mission Statement

Washburn School fosters a holistic, challenging, and dynamic exemplary English language educational program in a safe and nurturing environment. We educate and inspire our students to reach their full potential and we are committed to empowering them to pursue personal and academic excellence. Washburn prepares students to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, precise communicators, ethical leaders, intellectual problem solvers, and caring global citizens.

Vision

Washburn School aspires to be a world-class school that transforms students through the love of learning, truth, and wisdom as they strive to become bilingual graduates who are prepared to qualify for acceptances at premier higher education institutions around the world.

Washburn School strives to be the benchmark of English immersion-based PK-12th-grade education in southern Puerto Rico by providing an innovative and intensive educational program through dedicated, highly qualified, and well supported academic staff. We actively seek to maintain one of the best student to teacher ratios in our region through small group sized classes.

Core Values 

Washburn serves a diverse population and prepares students through an innovative and intensive program focused on engaging and enabling to be resilient, courageous, honest, respectful, empathetic, open-minded, citizens with a high sense of personal responsibility and integrity. Washburn students strive for excellence and academic, social, and emotional success as they actively embrace multilingualism.

August 2019-2020 Students of the Month (Value of the Month - Excellence)

Congratulations to the Washburn School August 2019 students of the month! Washburn's value of the month that our teachers have been working with in all grades is EXCELLENCE.

Pre-Kindergarten - Diego José Berríos Stella

Kindergarten - Hecmarie Rodríguez Colón

First Grade Glo - Vivian C. de León González

First  Grade Kat - Andrelis Torres Negrón

Second Grade - Ian Nael Aquino Vélez

Third Grade - Marcela C. Acevedo Brain

Fourth Grade - Veli Faith Rosario

Fifth Grade - Andrés Rodríguez Rodríguez

Sixth Grade - Jorianix L. Muñiz Renta

Seventh Grade - Marwa Rasheed

Eighth Grade - Miranda Chamorro Jimenez

Ninth Grade - Fadel Mohamad Said

Tenth Grade - Stefania Borges Rivera

Eleventh Grade - Abelardo Broche Ortiz

Twelfth grade - Rocio Quintana Guzmán

We congratulate the students that were selected and that have demonstrated that they are striving for excellence at Washburn 🦅 .


September 2019-2020 Students of the Month (Value of the Month - Responsibility)

Congratulations to the Washburn School September 2019 students of the month who were selected by all of their educators! Washburn's value of the month that our teachers have been working within all grades is RESPONSIBILITY.

PK - Anapatricia González Pérez

Kinder - Larah A. Gutiérrez Sánchez

First Grade GLO - Lucía Quiñones Justiz

First Grade KAT - Beverlyann Sánchez Venegas and Gerardo Echevarría Mercado

Second Grade - Rafael Colón Flores

Third Grade - Marcela Acevedo Brain

Fourth Grade - Veli Faith Rosario

Fifth Grade - Ahmad Mohamad Said

Sixth Grade - Claudia Betancourt Ortiz

Seventh Grade - Camila S. Robles Alberti

Eighth Grade - Alondra I. Sadek Franceschi and Andrea S. Rodríguez Rodríguez

Ninth Grade- Alejandra Alvarez Toledo

Tenth Grade - Claudia Toro Cruz

Eleventh Grade- Valeria Texeira Santiago

Twelfth Grade - Valeria Colón Quiles

Pre-Kindergarten - Andrés P. Rodríguez Santiago

Kindergarten - Pamela Burgos Madrigal

1st Grade Glo - Yaniris A. Aponte Rodríguez

1st Grade Kat - Lia V. Cruz Piazza

2nd Grade - Kamila N. Valle Torres

3rd Grade - Jesus Rentas Saldaña

4th Grade - Andrea Avilés Miranda

5th Grade - Alex Moreno Sotomayor

6th Grade - Gabriel Hernández Borges

7th Grade - Gabriel González Delfino

8th ----------- Vacant -------------

9th Grade - Fadel Mohammad Said

10th Grade - Lara Caraballo Rivera and Yeral Rodríguez López (Voting tie)

11th Grade - Nizar Munther Khatib

12th Grade - Abdiel Lafontaine Escalera