• In the US, Spanish is the most studied language at all levels of education.

• In the United Kingdom, Spanish is perceived as the most important language for the future.

• In the European Union, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany (in this order) are the countries with the highest number of Spanish students.

• Spanish is the second language of international communication, with more than 500 million speakers around the world, only behind English.

• Spanish is the second language with the largest number of native speakers on four continents.

• Around 20 million people decide to learn Spanish every year and demand has doubled in recent times.

• Spanish allows you to travel through more than 20 Spanish-speaking countries and discover the richness of their cinema, their literature, their music, their architecture and the immense variety of their gastronomy.

• According to the British Council report "Languages ​​for the future", Spanish is the most necessary foreign language in all areas.

• Of the G-20, the group of 20 industrialized and emerging countries, 4 of them speak Spanish, making our common language an essential tool in the business world.

• Spanish is the second most used language on the Internet, on social networks and on the official portals of international organizations, only behind English.

• Spain is the country in Europe with the greatest biological diversity, the second country in the world with the most sites declared as UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the third country on the planet that receives the most foreign visitors.

Aprender español es descubrir un universo de posibilidades... El español es el idioma del Camino de Santiago, es la lengua de Cervantes, de Federico García Lorca, de Borges, de Cortázar, de García Márquez, de Octavio Paz, de Mario Vargas Llosa...

Sponsor: Mr. Alexis Martínez-Brito

The Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH) is an organization that was founded to recognize high achievement in the study of Spanish by high school students and to promote continuity of interest in Hispanic studies. The SHH at Stony Point High School “Cristo del Otero” chapter has the purpose to honor students for their outstanding achievement in the study of the Spanish language, to encourage them to continue their studies of the Spanish language and culture, and to provide students opportunities to use their abilities to serve the community and school.

Membership Requirements

To be eligible for the Society, students must meet all of the following criteria:

a. Student must be a sophomore and actively enrolled in a Spanish III class or higher during the fall semester.

b. Student must have maintained an outstanding average in Spanish for the previous 3 consecutive semesters in accordance with the following criteria:

                                   IF CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN:                                                                                               STUDENT NEEDS AN AVERAGE OF:

                                                         SP. III                                                                                                                                                                   95 or better

                                          SP. III Advanced / SP. III IB                                                                                                                                   92 or better

                                             SP. IV / SP. IV Advanced                                                                                                                                   92 or better

                                        SP. AP Language/ AP Literature                                                                                                                           88 or better

c. Student must never have failed a class due to attendance nor had any disciplinary problems on his/her school record.

d.    A student must apply during the second semester of the academic school year.

NOTE: Transfer students must have spent one full semester in the program at STPHS before becoming eligible to apply.

After the sponsor has reviewed applications and verified grades, invitations to join are distributed, during the month of January, to those students who have qualified. This procedure is done only once annually.