The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of 16,000 nationwide semifinalists.

McClintock High School and Peggy Payne Academy had a total of six National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists. 

The six National Merit Semifinalists are Maclain Bonfield, Christopher Dilli, Michael Jones, Benjamin Shindel, Fargo Tbahki, and Julia Weiss.

To become National Merit Semifinalists the students had to score high on the PSAT during their junior year.