Celebrating student accomplishments is one of the great joys of our BASIS Independent Brooklyn community. Today, we can proudly share that 77%% of our high school students qualified as Advanced Placement (AP) Scholars during their tenure at our school, based on the May 2026 scores. With the 2026 scores, BASIS Independent Brooklyn students earned the highest-ever average AP test score of 4.08 as well as the highest-ever passing rate of 98%.

“This year we reached a milestone. Students at our school who sat for AP exams in May earned an average score of 4 out of 5, the highest in our school’s history,” said Josh Harmon, Head of School for BASIS Independent Brooklyn’s Upper School. “Among students across grades 9 through 12, the pass rate was 95%, which also marks the highest ever. The success reflects many factors: our students’ strong drive, an outstanding curriculum that builds on itself year after year, the expertise of our teachers, and the agency our faculty and Student Affairs team grow in our students.”

AP Scholar awards recognize students who have demonstrated both a depth and breadth of knowledge and whose work has shown college-level mastery across multiple disciplines. Through the years, our students move from AP Scholar to AP Scholar with Honor and then AP Scholar with Distinction as they take more classes and sit for the AP assessments.

The College Board awards the following distinctions for AP exams, and we have students who have achieved all levels.

• AP Scholar: students who received a score of 3 or higher on 3 or more AP exams.
• AP Scholar with Honors: students who received a score of 3 or higher on 4 or more exams, and have an average score of at least 3.25 across all exams taken.
• AP Scholar with Distinction: students who received a score of 3 or higher on at least 5 exams, and an average score of 3.5 across all exams taken.

Nationwide, only about 10% of students earn the distinction of AP Scholar or higher by the time they graduate (based on historic data provided by the College Board). We calculate the data with our freshmen included, who do not sit for three AP exams.

We are thrilled to share some of the top accomplishments here:

• 91 students in our high school were named AP Scholar or higher distinctions, representing 77% of our entire high school student body (after the exams were taken in May 2026). That figure includes freshmen, most of whom have not yet taken three AP classes, so the percentage among eligible students is even higher.
• Approximately 75% of our seniors in the Class of 2026 received the AP Scholar with Distinction, the highest award offered by the College Board. Nearly every senior received an AP Scholar or higher distinction by the time they graduated.
• Two of our students received AP Capstone Honors for completing AP Seminar and AP Research. These students are Nathan C. ’26 and Crosby P. ’27.

Congratulations to all our students who have earned an AP Scholar Award for their performance on the exams during their High School tenure. See the full list of student recipients, updated to include the 2026 results, below:

AP Scholar: Students who received a score of 3 or higher on 3 or more AP exams.

David B. ’28

Eva B. ’28

David B. ’27

Dana B. ’26

Leonardo C. ’27

Ethan F. ’28

Mattheus H. ’28

Joaquim H. ’26

Gabriel H. ’26

Nicole J. ’28

Ben K. ’28

Talia L. ’28

Ethan L. ’27

Summer L. ’26

Sophia N. ’28

Cormac O.-B. ’28

Quinn P. ’27

Xius P. ’28

Polina S. ’29

Gabe S. ’26

AP Scholar with Honors: Students who received a score of 3 or higher on 4 or more AP exams and have an average score of at least 3.25 across all exams taken. Nationwide, only about 6% of students will graduate high school with this degree of recognition or higher. Nearly all of these honorees have done so well before graduation.

Kylee A. ’28

Rhys B. ’28

Antonia B. ’28

Ethan C. ’28

Leonardo C. ’27

Ryan J. ’28

Noah N. ’27

Saajan P. ’26

AP Scholar with Distinction: Students who have a score of 3 or higher on at least 5 exams, and an average score of 3.5 across all exams taken. These students have already completed at least a semester’s worth of college credit while still in high school. Only about 4% of graduating seniors nationwide receive this award, and less than 1/10th of 1% of students receive it after sophomore year.

Overall, in our high school, 55% of students in our high school received this honor:

Olivia A. ’28

Wyatt A. ’26

Iris Autier-B. ’27

Orsen A. ’27

Maya B. ’27

Henry B. ’28

Philip B. ’26

Henry B. ’27

Jasper C. ’28

Carter C. ’28

Fionn C. ’28

Nathaniel C. ’26 + AP Capstone Diploma

Keyu C. ’27

Mia C. ’26

Bodhi D. ’27

Daniel D. ’27

Petra G. ’27

Alexa G. ’26

Abraham G. ’27

Jack G. ’28

Archie H. ‘26

Aya J. ’28

Sofia K. ’27

Katherine K. ’26

Audrey L. ’27

Jonathan L. ’28

Lianna L. ’26

Harrison L. ’27

Sabrina M. ’26

Varick M. ’27

William M. ’28

Jay M. ’28

Avigail M. ’28

Sefir O. ’26

David P. ’28

Talin P. ’26

Crosby P. ’27 + AP Capstone Diploma

Ishan P. ’28

Junyi Q. ’28

Kanika R. ’26

Noah R. ’26

Julia R. ’27

Jacob S. ’28

Zahra S. ’26

Hudson S. ’27

Xinyi S. ’26

Bowen S. ’27

Nolan S. ’27

Gregory S. ’26

Yohtaro S. ’28

Joshua S. ’28

Willa S. ’27

William S. ’27

Hugo S. ’27

Jasmine S. ’26

Indi S. ’27

Alexandra S. ’28

Olivia S. ’27

Beckham V. ’26

Vivian W. ’27

River W. ’26

Stella W. ’28

Yugo W. ’28

Isabella Y. ’27

Victor Y. ’27

Please join us in congratulating our Bears!

BASIS Independent Brooklyn is a PreK–Grade 12 private school, providing students with an internationally benchmarked liberal arts and sciences curriculum, with advanced STEM offerings.

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