More than 100,000 students sat the 2025 National Latin Exam across all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and twenty other countries — among them Australia, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, China, Greece, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Korea. The examination covers Latin grammar, reading comprehension, and Roman history and culture, offered at six levels from introductory to advanced. Eleven Emerson Latin students earned Gold Medals, ten Silver, and five Bronze. Twenty-six placing students in all — the largest cohort this academy has recorded in a single year across this examination. The full record is set down below.
- Esther Chae
- Charles Cho
- Olivia Hwang
- Seungmo Kim
- Hunjae Lee
- Jihan Lee
- Elisa Min
- Victoria Gyuyeon Park
- Jonghyun Seo
- Jason Tae
- Jaewon Yoon
- Aden Hwang
- Dael Hur
- Gio Hyung
- Yuriyel Keh
- Chaeeun Lee
- Seungwoo Sean Lee
- Jiyun Lim
- Gene Yang
- Min Yang
- Susie Yang
- Andy Hong
- Gloria Kim
- Seojun Lim
- Jehyeong Suh
- Riley Yoo
Twenty-six placing students is the largest total Emerson Latin has recorded in the National Latin Exam in a single year. The number is significant not because of what it says about a strong cohort at the top but because of what it says about the spread: eleven Gold, ten Silver, five Bronze means the placing students are distributed across all three tiers in roughly equal measure. A result concentrated at Gold would suggest a small group of advanced students performing well; this result suggests that the formation is producing competitive Latin at every stage, from the students just arriving at the intermediate levels through those competing at the advanced. Each of the twenty-six was tested at their own level and placed there on their own account.
Several names in the Gold tier — Hunjae Lee, Jonghyun Seo, Charles Cho, Victoria Gyuyeon Park — were among the five Emerson Latin students nominated this year for the Maureen O’Donnell Scholarship, the NLE’s recognition of its most advanced Gold Medalists. The examination that produced the scholarship nominations and the examination that produced this record are the same one. We congratulate all twenty-six.