Twenty-eight Rockwall ISD students were recently honored for their National Merit honors at The Scholastic Champions event. Each student gave a speech and brought their most influential teacher with them.
Six of those honored were recently named as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. Approximately 1.6 million students across the country took the qualifying test and only 16,000 qualified for this high honor, placing them in the top 1% of all students in the nation.
Twenty students are among the 34,000 National Merit Commended students throughout the nation recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended Students are among the top five percent of more than one million students.
Additionally, two students are among 5,000 students who were selected as Hispanic Scholars through the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Established in 1983, the National Hispanic Recognition Program is a College Board program that provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievement of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies them for postsecondary institutions.
Click here to see a photo gallery of the event.
The students, listed below, entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
National Merit Semifinalists – Rockwall High School
Parker Bassett
Kevin DeMars
National Merit Semifinalists – Rockwall-Heath High School
Daria Coutch
Anna Evers
Victoria Huang
Kyle Sherrod
National Merit Commended – Rockwall High School
Kason Alstatt
Adam Brown
Sean Denny
Ryan Figert
Aurelia Incristi
Johanna Pang
Amy Rester
Jeffrey Tessitore
National Merit Commended – Rockwall-Heath High School
Natalie Farrington
Bernard Fay
Bryan Ham
Michael Jarrett
Benjamin Killian
John Lundell
Allison Meadors
Ethan Oliver
Joelle Sanders
Rhett Cooprider
Benjamin Selle
Hanor Smith
National Hispanic Scholars – Rockwall High School
Patrick Fernandez
Jordan Franklin-Garza
