Two Dallas ISD schools ranked among the very best in the State Academic Pentathlon competition!
Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School’s eighth-grade team came in third place and Raul Quintanilla Sr. Middle School’s eighth-grade team came in the top 10 out of 85 schools. Rangel’s seventh-grade team came in fifth place out of 77 teams.
Texas Academic Pentathlon is the middle school competition equivalent to Academic Decathlon and Lone Star Challenge. Nine-member middle school teams complete five exams in different subject areas. Each year’s competition has a different theme, with this year’s theme being Africa.
Here are the Dallas regional results from the competition: