The students included (back row, left to right) Abigail Skalka, Ethan Bershtein, Hannah Flaherty, Aiden Reiter, Daniel Pollak, (Front row, left to right) Aaron Reiner, Samuel Farbman and Elana Shen, (pictured from left to right, back and front rows above)

Several students at Ezra Academy in Woodbridge were honored as among the most academically gifted young students in the country by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) this past fall. . Ethan Bershtein was one of only three students in the state of Connecticut who took First Place with High Honors in the SCAT Quantitative exam. Now in its third decade as a nonprofit center at Johns Hopkins University, CTY identifies America’s top students in grades two through eight, and provides programs, services and resources to help them make the most of their advanced academic abilities.