Nearly 800 IUSD Seniors Awarded the State Seal of Biliteracy

Graduating California public high school students earn the biliteracy gold seal, which is affixed to their diplomas, for achieving proficiency in speaking, reading and writing in one or more languages in addition to English.

This year, 768 IUSD seniors have been awarded the State Seal of Biliteracy across 15 languages:

• American Sign Language
• Chinese
• Dutch
• Farsi
• French
• Hebrew
• Japanese
• Kannada
• Korean
• Latin
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Tamil
• Vietnamese

Nearly 30 percent of the 2023 graduating class has demonstrated their biliteracy or triliteracy. In fact, 39 IUSD seniors will receive two seals for demonstrating their triliteracy.

IUSD is proud to recognize and celebrate our students, World Language teachers, school counselors for their teaching and proficiency in multiple languages.  Congratulations! 

Below  are the names of the 768 students, listed by school, who earned this honor. To learn more, visit our SSB in IUSD webpage.  * Indicates triliteracy

Irvine High School 

• Sabrina Aouad
• Kwangbin Bae
• Mannat Bawa
• Arantxa Bernal
• Jonathan Campbell
• Sienna Cano
• Alexa Cazares
• Ryan Chang
• Aaron Chao
• Charline Chen*
• Aven Chew
• Wesley Choi
• Sungha Choi
• Reilly Chow
• Andrew Ding
• Jeslyn Do
• Aruzu Farooqi
• Linai Gao
• Sofia Garcia
• Kaylin Ger
• Yvanna Granados
• Nathan Han*
• Jacob Hernandez
• Citlaly Herrera
• Ayaka Hiraki*
• Eunjie Hong
• Jaehee Jeung
• Benyameen Karim
• Jimin Kim
• Rachel Kim
• Elizabeth Kim
• Atharv Kolhatkar
• Seoyeon Kwak
• Jocelyn Kwon
• Kimberly Lau
• Brian Lee
• Eduardo Lee
• Annaka Lee
• Adrian Lei
• Junyi Li
• Phoebe Li
• Francine Nguyen
• Eli Rapp
• Angela Rebolledo
• Zeyu Ren
• Kenneth Romero Hernandez
• Soham Sarkar
• Linjie Shang
• Junha Shin
• Brian Song*
• So Takagi
• Richard Tang*
• David Tang
• Felicia Tao
• Arika Thakarar
• Joshua Tio
• Brian Tsai
• Sophia Uhl
• Isabella Wall
• Cody Wang
• Ashlynn Weidenbenner
• Allen Weng
• Howard Wheeler
• Annabelle Wu
• Lily Wu
• Qianhao Xu
• Chih-Han Yang
• Cyndi Yeh
• Mikaila Yim
• Charlize Yip
• Ali Zahedi
• Mohammed Zaidan
• Ruoshui Zhang
• Derek Zhang
• Yilan Zhao
• Jerry Zhao

Northwood High School 

• Liam Aguirre
• Rahma Ahmed
• Ida Ahola*
• Nadia Anan
• Badrish Ananth
• Snigdha Arabandi
• Caleb Au
• Ananya Badari
• Sahanaa Balachandran
• Pasha Besharaty
• Satwik Bondelepati
• Iacopo Cagnoni
• Olivia Cai*
• Sumedha Chalasani
• Ellie Chan*
• Howard Chan
• Eugenie Chang
• Martin Chang
• Jonathan Chen
• Claire Chow
• Julia Chubb
• Olga Crook
• Austin Dai
• Ayushi Das
• Bhargavi Deshpande
• Asher Ding
• Jasmine Elias
• Sophia Fei*
• Haodong Fei
• Likith Gadde
• MingYao Gao*
• Tanvi Garneni
• Aditya Girish
• Shaina Grover
• Shirley Guo
• Khushi Gupta
• Shayan Halder
• Sana Hamid
• Aditya Hari
• Eduardo Hernandez
• Josiahs Herrera
• Rutvij Holay
• Rachel How
• Albert Huang
• Kim Huynh
• Salma Iliasu
• Aryan Inamdar
• Taylor Inouye
• Daniel Irwan
• Acile Jammoul
• SeokHwan Jang
• Yuhong Jiang
• Yuetong Jin
• Serena John
• Uma Joshi
• Alyssa Julian
• Ayushi Kadakia
• Jonathan Kang
• Ariela Kao
• Nicole Karraa
• Lovni Kaushik
• Manal Khan
• Yusrah Khan
• Yash Khot
• Daniel Ko*
• Sanika Kolur
• Sophia Kuftedjian
• Arya Kumar
• Siddhanth Kumar*
• Lindsey Kung
• Srijan Kunta
• Aditi Kurup
• Bo-Lin Lai
• Gil Lazar
• Clayland Lee*
• Evan Lee
• Justin Lee
• Annie Lee
• Sean Lee
• Shannon Lee
• Joi Li
• Yingtao Li
• Andy Li
• Audrey Li
• Michael Li
• Ming Li
• Coco Liang*
• Emilie Liao
• Anna Lieggi
• Matthew Lim
• Shani Lin
• Alex Liu
• Kawei Lo
• Fiona Lu
• Yuzhuo Ma
• Sumukh Mahesh
• Braden Meyers
• Kai Mow
• Chloe Mun*
• Elaine Pan
• Samagra Pandey
• Seyeon Park
• Ian Park
• Joohyung Park
• Tvisha Patel
• Sohani Pawan
• Andrew Penrod
• Colin Pham
• Prithika Poomaran
• Yutang Qiu
• Brookelyn Quan
• Santhoshi Ramkumar
• Kaitlyn Ramos
• Kayla Rashti
• Farhaan Safi
• Yuvika Satapathy
• Congxuan Shi*
• Shaan Singh
• Kevin Sohn
• Wonyoung Song*
• Vibha Srinivas
• Kai Sun
• Arjun Suresh
• Hinanui Swider
• Aiden Tak
• Ilia Talebi Dolouei
• Hannah Tao
• Anthara Thirupathi
• Annabel Tiong
• Michelle Trinh
• Sebastian Valentine-Castelan
• Aditya Verma
• Sebastien Verneuil
• Diwen Wan
• Aaron Wang*
• Jichuan Wang*
• Karen Wang
• Sunny Wang
• Annabel Wang
• Ethan Wen
• Ella-Blue Wilmot
• Haohan Wu
• Alyssa Wu
• Felix Xie
• Ryan Xu
• Yuxin Yang
• Chohan Yim
• Dylan Yoo
• Brad Yu
• Amelia Yum
• Louis Zajtmann
• Karen Zhao

Portola High School

• Deema Abdelkarim
• Gilberto Aguilar
• Danielle Akiva
• Noah Aldana
• Michaela Allen-Aguirre
• Mirabella Allen-Aguirre
• Melika Almarzouk
• Emma Amakasu
• Krish Arora
• Sufyan Ashraf
• Sydney Badescu
• Rishabh Bajaj
• Elizabeth Bank
• Yasa Baqar
• Dean Berger
• Dheeksha Bhima Reddy
• Felix Bian
• Thomas Bittencourt
• Ethan Bollard
• Adrian Bravo
• Blake Carlsson
• Sofia Carmolinga
• Sebastian Caro
• Hailey Castillo
• Cara Chan
• Arnav Chandan
• Garrett Chang
• Ethan Chant
• Chloe Chau
• Aldyn Chen
• Brandyn Chen
• Kathleen Chen
• Jason Chen
• Amory Cheng
• Li-Hsin Cheng
• Brian Cheong
• Daniel Cheong
• Grace Cho
• Ryan Chu
• Madyson Chung-Lee
• Liliana L Couture*
• Devin Daniel
• Aryaman Dayal
• Kenneth De Felippo
• Nicole Dehkordi
• Joel Dela Cruz
• Dillon Desai
• Cindy Ding
• Yan Dong
• Kamal Elzoheiry
• Amy Fakhry
• Kiana Fan
• Danica Fernandes
• Shaoshuan Fu
• Jett Fukuda
• Zijie Gao
• Citlali Garcia-Montero
• Haylee Glover
• Dylan Goldman
• Cristian Gomez
• TaeJun Gu
• Nathan Hahn
• Ahvend Hassan
• Eric Hsiao
• Lea Hsu
• Natalie Humphrey
• Braedyn Hutchison
• Janice Jang
• Aidan Jayakumar
• Nathan Ji
• Trevor Jiang
• Meng Jin*
• Kyle Jong
• Aditya Kamble
• Dane Kelii
• Aiza Khalil
• Hiba Khan
• Caroline Kim
• David Kim
• Madeleine Kim
• Simon Kim
• Taehwee Kim
• William Kim
• Yeonah Kim
• Nicholas Kluber Martinez
• Lindsey Ko
• Niroop Krishnakumar
• Satyajit Kumar
• Hannah Lajevardi
• Landon Le
• Ryan Le
• Amber Lee
• Celine Lee
• Christopher Lee*
• Jacob Lee
• Olivia Lee
• Sean Lee
• Shengyi Li
• Ellie Lian
• Juntong Liao
• Dexi Lin
• Mia Linville
• Esther Liu
• Lucy ChenXi Liu
• Henry Lo
• Hongzhi Luo
• Noah Luper
• Andrew Lyu
• Leena Malik
• Stella Markarian
• Katherine Martinez
• Sarah Matsuura
• Liam McGuane
• Riyaz Mehta
• Saanvi Mekala
• Aryan Mittal
• Sarina Mody
• Paola Morales Concepcion
• Shreedevi Murugan
• Leyla Naqvi
• Acelyn Nguyen
• Thomas Nguyen
• Nicholas Nieto
• Mathew Noh
• Zelan Nong
• Melina Noras
• Ethan Ouyeung
• Klara Parang
• Aiden Park
• Jiwon Park
• Anshil Patel
• Ian Pierce
• Varsha Raju
• Jiyun Rhim*
• Alexis Richmond
• Emilio Rivera
• Cristian Sabeh
• Moka Saiki*
• Artin Salehi
• Ethan Salonga
• Kundana Sammatur
• Jaidin Sanchez
• Max Santayana
• Madison Savage
• Shaya Sharifi
• Arnav Sharma
• Rhea Sheth
• Nihar Shetty
• Peyton Shim
• Arshia Sista
• Emma Song
• Ryan Jerom Soriano
• Chris Su
• Zirui Su
• Ethan Sudibjo
• Elise Sullivan
• Hasan Syyed
• Micah Talapatra
• Charlotte Tonelli
• Anh Tran
• Nathan Tran
• Sofie Tran
• Alondra Troncoso-Barajas
• Michelle Truong
• Ryan Truong
• Collin Tucker
• Kailee Uchino
• Lauren Van
• Shamit Vasamsetty
• Aditya Vemuri
• Ethan Vianzon
• Thomas Vidal
• Vikram Vijayabaskar
• Mark Jayden Villanueva
• Rishi Vridhachalam
• Caroline Wang
• Nicole Wang*
• Serene Wang
• Yue Wang
• Nakul Warrier
• Alex Wilhelm
• Yat Long Alfy Wong
• John Woo
• Lauren Wood
• Shuyuan Wu
• Dongnia Xiao
• Peter Xu*
• Zihan Xu
• Anne Yang
• Junseo Yang
• Ethan Yee
• Jayden Yeung
• Hwanjun Yi
• Zixuan Yin
• Isaac Yoon
• Gwyneth Yung
• Alyssa Zhang*
• Jing Zhang
• Yujia Zhang
• Yunwei Zhang
• Silan Zhao
• Ruocun Zhong
• Junwei Zhou
• Ahad Zia

San Joaquin High School 

• Vritti Chopra
• Harris Li
• Guanzhen Song
• Taye Waller
• Zixuan Wang
• Yuhao Wu

University High School 

• Ryan Alavi
• D'Angelo Alvarez
• Dalila Armenta
• Akari Baba*
• Rania Ben Romdhane
• Ryan Biglou
• Rosha Broomandfard
• Mallika Cadin
• Tianpei Chai
• Arjun Chaturvedi
• David Chen
• Florence Chen
• Joshua Chen
• Isabella Chen
• Joanna Chen
• Lauren Choi*
• Nayoung Chung
• Paolo Conta
• Juliet Curtis
• Iris Dou
• Larry Du
• Katie Dualba
• Neil Edgett
• Phoebe Eng
• Maya Fahimi
• Benjamin Fan
• Alysa Feng
• Anna Fouad
• Benlin Gan*
• Sumunaa Gnanashanmugam
• Reina Gomez
• Eric Gong
• Pranav Gonuguntla
• Pranay Gonuguntla
• Jenny Gu
• Siara Gunawardhana
• Jonah Han
• Shannon Hegarty
• Anabel Howery
• Ella Huang
• Jolynn Huang
• Lawrence Huang
• Pohsuan Huang
• Jihun Hwang
• Yamato Ichii
• Keyon Jazayeri
• Wanqi Jia
• Jacqueline Jiang
• Joshua Jun
• Miyako Kato
• Andrew Ke*
• Jamie Kim*
• Mia Kim
• Alex Kimm
• Miya Kuang
• Adam Kunin
• Veronica Kuo
• Tracy Le
• Spencer Lee
• Baoyi Li*
• Elizabeth Li
• Qize Li
• Yixuan Li
• Andrew Lim
• Mina Lipets
• Rachel Ludwig
• Kaitlyn Lung
• Joshua Malek
• Hoi Ling Man
• Angelina Marcos
• Pareesa Masood
• Ioannis Mavrikis
• Alexander Meng*
• Aaron Millman
• Sarang Min
• Tate Morse
• Ria Murali
• Karina Nanda
• Kalyan Ngo
• Talia Nguyen
• Zach Nguyen
• Akemi Nishida
• Ryu Nomura
• Andre Pacheco
• Hannah Park
• Daniel Parvini
• Leah Parvini
• Kevin Paz
• Max Peng
• Ming Qi
• Manyi Qi
• Andre Qin
• Sydney Quach
• Alex Reyes
• Harper Richardson
• Luca Rignot
• Jolie Roche
• Leon Rocheteau*
• Sarah Romito
• Silvi Romito
• Ramina Rymzhanova
• Kashish Sachdeva
• Manisha Sawhney
• Savannah Sayer
• Ruby Seckinger
• Jonathan Seo
• Brooke Shaw
• Aniyah Shen
• Helina Shojaei
• Anna Slavuk
• Jaemin Song
• Dylan Soong
• Katrina Soto
• June Su
• Kendall Sullivan
• Emily Sun
• Alyssa Tang
• Alex Tao
• Kelly Tou
• Bryan Tran
• Alexa Treece
• Minh Trinh
• Akshita Tripathi
• Allison van Erp*
• Darsh Verma
• Jadyn Wakita
• Jiachen Wang
• Samuel Wang
• Jason Wang
• Heyu Wang
• Ruijia Wang
• Weiheng Wang
• Harry Wang
• Tyler Wu
• Eric Wu
• Andy Xu
• Ziling Xu
• Ashley Yang
• Haolin Yang
• Charles Yates
• Katherine Yu
• Siwen Yu
• Paola Zavala
• Wenxin Zhang
• James Zhen
• Christopher Zhou
• Grace Zhou
• Joshua Zhou
• Lauren Zhou