{"id":376237,"date":"2026-08-20T04:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:26:20","slug":"ap-scholar-awards-lee-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376237\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Scholar Awards &#8211; Lee County Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"featured_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ap Scholars.jpg\" alt=\"AP Scholar Awards\" title=\"AP Scholar Awards\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The School District of Lee County is proud to announce that 364 students from the Class of 2026 have been honored with Advanced Placement Scholar Awards. Two of those students earned the distinguished AP Capstone Diploma. The AP Capstone Diploma program helps students develop critical thinking, research, collaboration, and presentation skills that are essential to academic success.<\/p>\n<p>To receive the AP Capstone Diploma, students must earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar, AP Research, and on four additional AP\u00ae Exams of their choice. Class of 2025 AP Capstone Diploma recipients are:<\/p>\n<p>    Madison Farrah, Riverdale High School<br \/>\n    Lorena Huang, Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n<p>The AP Program Scholar Award recognizes high school students who have demonstrated outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on multiple AP Exams. AP Scholar Awards have three levels: Scholar, Scholar with Honor, and Scholar with Distinction. Students at 11 high schools and Lee Virtual School were recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral High School<\/p>\n<p>    95 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    26 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<br \/>\n    38 Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>Cypress Lake High School<\/p>\n<p>    12 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    6 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<br \/>\n    4 Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>Dunbar High School<\/p>\n<p>    12 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    4 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<br \/>\n    4 AP Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n<p>    63 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    37 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<br \/>\n    71 AP Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>Gateway High School<\/p>\n<p>    1 AP Scholar with Distinction Award<\/p>\n<p>Ida S. Baker High School<\/p>\n<p>    1 AP Scholar with Honor Award<\/p>\n<p>Island Coast High School<\/p>\n<p>    3 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    1 AP Scholar with Distinction Award<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Senior High School<\/p>\n<p>    2 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<\/p>\n<p>Lee Virtual School<\/p>\n<p>Mariner High School<\/p>\n<p>    2 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    1 AP Scholar with Honor Award<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n<p>    8 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    2 AP Scholar with Honor Awards<br \/>\n    3 AP Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>Riverdale High School<\/p>\n<p>    25 AP Scholar Awards<br \/>\n    1 AP Scholar with Honor Award<br \/>\n    5 AP Scholar with Distinction Awards<\/p>\n<p>More information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeschools.net\/parent_portal\/advanced_academics_steam\" title=\"Opens in the same window\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School District\u2019s advanced program offerings<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The School District of Lee County is proud to announce that 364 students from the Class of 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-376237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}