12 School District Five students named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists
September 20, 2018
12 students from Lexington-Richland School District Five have been announced as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship program. All four high schools from School District Five are represented in the nationwide pool of semifinalists which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
“I am proud of this academic accomplishment of these National Merit Scholars as they represent the high quality students that we have here in School District Five,” said Chief Instructional Officer Michael Guliano. “This honor is a testament to the academic rigor throughout our system that is producing students who will go on to have bright futures. Congratulations to each of the semifinalists.”
Representing Chapin High are:
- Grayson Fletcher
- Holden Gabriel
- Joseph Humphries
- Madeleine Maylath.
Representing Dutch Fork High are:
- Myra Cai
- Joshua Coleman
- Meiqi Gu
- Justin Kennedy
- Lauren Riehm.
Representing Irmo High is
- Nieky Wang.
Representing Spring Hill are:
- Noah Cuttino
- Christian Davis.
These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring. About 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2019 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join some 338,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
