sentences:  In 2008, a seventh group student placed in the top 0.2 percent of competitors from around the world with a perfect score in the 24th annual American Mathematics Contest.In 2009, the seventh and eighth group Social Studies teams both placed third in the nation at the National Social Studies League contest and an ACS student won the Illinois Geography Bee, The same year, two eighth group students received perfect scores on "Le Grand Concours"—the National French Contest of the American Association of Teachers of French.Of the 40 Avery Coonley students who took "Le Grand Concours", 32 placed in the top ten in the nation at their grade level.