This year the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) continued the tradition of having a remarkable number of National Merit Scholar Semifinalists, with 48 students who have achieved semifinalist status in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. This designation is based on high performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Less than one percent of the 1.5 million students nationwide who took the test were awarded semifinalist status.

On Monday, November 21, 2016, members of the Madison School District’s Board of Education will hold a special meeting as a tribute to these scholars and also recognize their family’s commitment to education during the celebration.

The total number of Madison semifinalists is the highest among all districts in the state of Wisconsin, as well as among the highest in the nation for districts comparable in size. For a district the size of Madison, the average number of semifinalists is six. This is the 24th straight year that at least 27 Madison students have achieved semifinalist status.

National Merit Scholars from East High School:

Seth Goldstein

Mikala Hoecherl

Sophia Klimowicz

National Merit Scholars from La Follette High School:

Albert Shoshany-Glosser

National Merit Scholars from Memorial High School:

Deborah Blank

David Chen

Casey Gregorich-Trevor

Emma Hubbard

Sanjana Kumar

Christopher Mann

Ameya Sanyal

Sara Schumacher

Margaret Sleeth

Lillibeth Snellman

Aniruddh Srinivasan

Claire Sun

Luke Vander Meer

Jack Votava

Isabella Wu

Christoper Xu

Peter Yang

National Merit Scholars from West High School:

Emily Astfalk

Roman Boswell

Allison Chandler

Henry Downey

Eliana Durnbaugh

Anna Frehner

Nora Ghandhi

Noelle Grapentine-Benton

Aurora Greane

Isabel Greene

Valerie Hellmer

Melannie Jay

Bryan Jin

Cailin Jordan

Margaret little

Ivy Loos-Austin

Isaiah Miller

Helen Murphy

Hadar Ohana

Elan Pelegri

Nina Raymo

Chloe Robinson

Owen Roszkowski

Jens Shager

Norma Williamson Shaffer

Hancheng Wu

Noah Zamzow-Schmidt

November 2016