Thirteen Maine Township High School District 207 students have been named National Merit Scholarship Finalists in the 2021 scholarship program, the district announced.
Catherine Taylor
More than 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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The number of Semifinalists from each state is proportional to the state s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. MBHS had more Semifinalists and now has more Finalists than any other high school in Alabama.
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Scholarship available high school students of Gannett employees
By Staff Reports
A scholarship program is available for high school students entering college in the fall of 2022 who are children of Gannett employees.
The Gannett Foundation’s Madelyn P. Jennings Scholarship Program is an annual competition funded by the Gannett Foundation and conducted through the National Merit Scholarship Program by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), an independent, not-for-profit organization.
To participate in the program, high school juniors must take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in the specified year of their high school program. Students who plan to spend the usual four years in high school grades 9 through 12 before entering college full time must take the PSAT/NMSQT in 11th grade.
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 to be named Semifinalists in their respective states. Although Commended Students do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some may become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.
Open enrollment in January for tuition-free Kingsland School Kingsland School, a public charter school, is currently accepting enrollment applications for the spring semester. Open enrollment for the 2021-22 school year is in January. Staff photo by Daniel Clifton
Kingsland School is accepting applications for the 2020-21 spring semester. Open enrollment for the 2021-22 school year is in January.
While the school accepts applications throughout the year, state law sets aside January as the open enrollment period for charter schools when every applicant has an equal opportunity for admission.
As a public charter school, there is no tuition to attend.
Kingsland School, which is part of the Orenda Public Charter School District, is a kindergarten through 10th grade campus with 134 students. The school is open to students in the Llano, Marble Falls, and Burnet school district boundaries.