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Eight high school seniors in the Lafayette Parish School System have been named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Avon Lake High School boasts four seniors named Commended Students from the National Merit Scholarship program. More than two-thirds of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test receive Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended Students are named based on a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year-to-year and is typically below the level required for participants t...