West Students Finish the Year with Over Three Million Pages

At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the BW English Department challenged the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes to a READING CONTEST.  How did they do?

Together, Belleville West students read 3,328,259 pages of pleasure reading in the 2024-2025 school year!  What does that mean?

If those pages were set out end-to-end, they would stretch 447 miles!  That’s all the way from Belleville to Columbus, Ohio (via the interstate highway system)—plus another 34 miles!

If you read one page per minute, it would take 2,311 days (that’s over six years) to read that many pages—without any breaks to eat or sleep!

If you had a penny for every page that Belleville West students read this year, you would have more than $33,282!

How did the classes stack up against each other?

The SENIOR CLASS finished the year with 630,906 pages of pleasure reading.  They read 132,449 pages in the fourth quarter, an average of 388 pages per senior.  These senior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Lodle, second hour – 888 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger, third hour – 842 pages per student

Mr. Armknecht, seventh hour – 740 pages per student

Ms. Schaab, fourth hour – 674 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis, third hour – 536 pages per student

Mr. Lodle, first hour – 469 pages per student

Mrs. Story, third hour – 449 pages per student

Mrs. Story, sixth hour – 448 pages per student

Mrs. Story, seventh hour – 473 pages per student

The JUNIOR CLASS finished the year with 1,018,928 pages of pleasure reading.  They read 240,0603 pages in the fourth quarter, an average of 554 pages per junior.  These junior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Garland, first hour – 987 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, second hour – 890 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, third hour – 859 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, sixth hour – 798 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, second hour – 695 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, first hour – 691 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, third hour – 695 pages per student

Mr. Garland, second hour – 665 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, sixth hour – 647 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, fourth hour – 583 pages per student

Mr. Garland, fourth hour – 574 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, fifth hour – 535 pages per student

Mr. Garland, fifth hour – 531 pages per student

The SOPHOMORE CLASS finished the year with 847,376 pages of pleasure reading.  They read 226,326 pages in the fourth quarter (their best number of the year!), average of 502 pages per sophomore.  These sophomore classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Armknecht, first hour – 1298 pages per student

Mr. Armknecht, third hour – 977 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, sixth hour – 889 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis, second hour – 833 pages per student

Mrs. Schlich, fifth hour – 780 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, first hour – 631 pages per student

Mr. Armknecht, sixth hour – 609 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, fifth hour – 600 pages per student

Ms. Schlich, seventh hour – 569 pages per student

Mr. Jenkins, second hour – 521 pages per student

The FRESHMAN CLASS finished the year with 831,049 pages of pleasure reading.  They read 218,717 pages in the fourth quarter, an average of 466 pages per freshman.  These freshman classes read the most pages per student:

Mrs. Short, seventh hour – 859 pages per student

Mrs. Story, fourth hour – 807 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, second hour – 800 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, seventh hour – 747 pages per student

Mrs. Short, fourth hour – 702 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, first hour – 697 pages per student

Mrs. Short, second hour – 695 pages per student

Mrs. Short, sixth hour – 650 pages per student

Ms. Rodgers, sixth hour – 552 pages per student

Ms. Rodgers, first hour – 549 pages per student

CONGRATULATIONS to the JUNIOR CLASS for reading MORE THAN ONE MILLION PAGES EACH!  Congratulations to all four classes on their pleasure reading totals for this year.  Keep reading this summer!